Epic is a portrait of my son, Wyatt, at age ten, expertly capturing the tender transition between childhood and adolescence. He poses with typical teen bravado, wearing a trilby hat and his favorite clothes. The boy’s serious posture—while wielding a World of Warcraft sword that reveals his impressionable, youthful inner world—endears him to the viewer. Despite the Ray Bans, one senses sensitive youthful eyes staring back at us. The juxtaposition of the dark figure, the light background, and the value spectrum in the shadows creates an eye-catching contemporary portrait. At the time, the teen’s in-word was ‘epic’ which contributed the title. One foot in childhood the other in adulthood and not knowing where to be.