In addition to establishing Ryder Evan Robison Studio, in Idaho my wife and I have built a life. We take care of each other, a garden, our land, and a crew of dogs, cats, chickens and rabbits. I create my work in the workshop my grandfather built on the property in 1969, and I volunteer as a firefighter for the same department where he was Chief back in the ’70’s. I still have some of my grandfather’s old leather belts, wallets, and harnesses that he used to work his horses – each handmade piece still holding up, decades later, now hanging on my shop wall.