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About This Site and the Author Thereof

These pages have existed on the World Wide Web since 1994 and were originally part of my personal homepage site. That site was decorated with an athropomorphic unicorn cartoon (and it still is, although it's a wholly different one now) and there was a matching smaller icon of the same cartoon, giving the site a very unicorny sort of feel. I included a page about unicorns because I thought people might be curious about why I had them on my website.

From there, the unicorn pages sort of took on a life of their own.

This is the seventh incarnation of this site's design. The first pages matched my personal homepage site, which was then done in a pastel rainbow theme (very pretty for 1994, very outdated now). The next design was also a "rainbows and unicorns" theme, with a left-hand border (unicorns on a vivid strip of rainbow). Next came black pages with icy white graphics of a heraldic unicorn on a left-hand border. Then came a design with a 3D-rendered unicorn motif, and then another design featuring a unicorn horn, scroll-type background, and a 3D-rendered unicorn. Then we were back to the left-hand border and the black and white, though it was a completely new and different design, and rather quirky, with 2D unicorns that were coloured in black and white patterns like pintos.

Now, of course, I have this Medieval-inspired design, and for the record, the unicorn on the left is from a scan of a real Renaissance-era bestiary. The little unicorn on the very bottom is one I did myself, though it's based on a sketch of a horse by Leonardo da Vinci.

As for who the heck I am, well, I'm just a lover of art, of history, and of unicorns. Unicorns are a "totem" for me, if you like. I just identify with unicorns for reasons which elude me (typical of unicorns, isn't it?).

I have, in fact, formally studied fine art and art history, and have informally but extensively studied European history (mostly English) for many years. I don't claim to be an "expert" on unicorns. I wouldn't dare! I do know a good deal about their representations in Western art and literature, yes, and a fair amount about their history in Western tradition, but it's kind of hard to be an expert on something as elusive and mystical as unicorns.

Mostly, I let the unicorns tell me who they are, and sometimes, they tell me who I am, as well...

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