Eric Roush:  

Hmmm, how to describe all that I am and have been in a nutshell. Well, I guess all my travels through life have led me through an artistic lonely side to an adventurous side where I am now. I spent 10 years after high school doing some soul searching and trying out various work roles. I fought forest fires in California, worked as a ranch hand on a large 25,000 acre ranch in northern NM, went back to Santa Fe and worked in a clothing store as a buyer and managed the mens department (and had horrible dreams of being a little old man and never accomplishing any of the things that pulled on my dream strings). I finally decided to go to college after 10 years intermission to major in art. I got accepted in Northern Arizona University's art program but on my first day I got a bad case of tunnel vision. Art had been my whole life up 'till then and I had so much more that I wanted to know. So, just like that, I switched my major to geology. I was so hungry for knowledge that I ended up getting two minors along with it -- biology and remote sensing. I found ways to use my art along the way doing scientific illustration for some of my professors. My activities have evolved through the years as well. I've loved a...Expand for more