My parents moved around a lot, people ask me where I came from. I don't know what to say, up and down the East coast of the United States, many different states. Then I was always interested in Art and worked on it a lot. I went to college for Art. I went to two different colleges and majored in Fine Arts, but when I graduated I knew very little about drawing. Somebody introduced me to Jacque's lectures and I listened to them. When I was about 26, I ended up going to his lectures and I just stayed and started working with Jacque. Started reading some of the books on the booklist, I was generally interested in what he was saying and how he drew. When I saw how he drew, I wanted to draw like that. I worked hard, took lessons from Jacque and he taught me how to draw technically and how it applies to Fine Arts. I understood that if I wanted to see the world that Jacque talked about, I had to work at it and I had to build it. So I stayed on to do that and it meant more to me than anything I'd ever heard and anything I'd experienced. I couldn't have gotten this experience anywhere else. So I used to attend Jacque's lectures at his home, he used to give it three times a week. That's where the old tapes come from, from the 70s and 80s. That's about it. I learned a tremendous amount working with him and had to do a lot of things because we didn't have a lot of the finances to hire other people. We wanted things done a certain way, such as the editing or the way the buildings were built. I did a lot of that cement work and actually built the buildings and got a lot of experience with that. I always thought it was very important for educating kids the way I got educated through Jacque. He first taught me how to do technical illustrations, which I never got in college and art school. And then how to make the models, I learned on his designs, which made it more interesting than anything I could have gotten in school. Then how to build the buildings, then living in them and understanding how you'd do it differently was a tremendous experience and thought all kids should go through that.

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Answered by Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, TVP Authorized

QA#: 2012052022
Transcribed by Tülay Güneş