Ric has been in pursuit of making art for most of his life. It began in 1987 when he began building custom steel bicycle frames. It turned out to be artistic and not art. Next, he restored European automobiles and vintage race cars, again, artistic, not art. Then he stumbled into silver and silversmithing and there it was. He could fabricate anything his mind could conjure, well, almost anything. As he spent time honing his abilities, the abilities to fabricate more complex ideas became a realization.