Both my friends José Álvarez Cornett, and Richard Jacobs invited me to write about my teacher Dore Ashton (1928-2017). Thank you guys. It has been a nice little ride into my early twenties. What a gift it is to be able to fly back. A smile drawn in my face, my heart pumping a little faster, my whole body from skin to bones, should I say soul, filled with the emotion of the world opening in front of my very eyes. I was on the shores of adulthood. Art School in New York City. A