Banners are as old as people, and throughout history, banners have been used to make a statement about who you are, what your aspirations are, and where you want to be.

I've been making banner art since 1978.

I take it to the exquisite level of incorporating light into a light, translucent nylon fabric called banner cloth.

It's fun to work with and it creates brilliant color.

It has the power of stained glass in motion.

My whole artistic background or reason for being is the graceful line.

Sometimes when I'm drawing the lines or cutting the lines, I almost feel like I'm skating.

The cutting is done with a hot based tool, and you cut around each piece and melt the fabric because it's nylon, so that seals the edges.

And then when you put it back together again, it overlaps and we zigzag stitch it together there.

The enemy of nylon is ultraviolet rays.

That's the biggest one.

In a town like Durango, which is in the little canyon.

It's very protected.

So the sun sets early and kind of gets up late.

So the banners last 30, 40 years.

Banners are alive because they move with the wind.

When you add light and color, you see the life.

And that's what captures my heart.