About This Site and the Site Author

This site is designed to be viewed at 1024x768 or better screen resolution. The content should be readable at 800x600, although the page design isn't optimal at that resolution.

These pages have existed on the World Wide Web since 1994 and were originally part of my personal homepage site. That site was (and still is, though it's not the same one) decorated with an athropomorphic unicorn cartoon 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 sixth 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pages matched my personal homepage site, which was then done in a pastel rainbow theme (very pretty for 1994; very outdated now, which is why it's no longer online). The next design was 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 and which proved to be very popular. Then came a design with a 3D unicorn and the spiral horn, and then another design featuring a unicorn horn, scroll-type background, and a 3D unicorn. And now we're back to the left-hand border and the black and white, though it is a completely new and different design (and no, I can't say why I make the unicorns on the border black and white like pintos; I just thought it looked interesting).

As for who the heck I am, well, I'm just a lover of art, of history, and of unicorns. Unicorns are my symbol, a "totem", 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 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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