I painted this portrait in 2003, and three years later it got a second chance at public life with the Portland Art Center’s Boredom: I Learned It By Watching You.

Also in 2006, a local artist used this image of Shettler as an illustration for a blog post about him and failed to credit me.  Thinking that a fellow artist of all people would understand the meaning of intellectual property, I assumed that the blogger had simply forgotten to mention my authorship.  But, over the course of an email conversation, it became clear that this artist-blogger did not consider my work worthy of credit.  Perhaps he felt that Shettler’s portrait belonged more to Shettler than to me?