Monograph with essay by Walter Hopps. Features artworks by Gage Taylor, Cliff McReynolds, Sheila Rose, Bill Martin, Thomas Akawie, Nick Hyde, Jospeh Parker. "Each artist presides over his model universe like an ecstatic god, bestowing it with a wealth of finely detailed contour, texture and local color, all executed with a consummate, meticulous, precision-tooled craftsmanship, breathtaking in its hyper-real clarity." -- from book's back cover. Best described as an atypical product of Hopps alter-ego in a trippy world. ... [details]