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Creating art since I was a child, It’s been the only thing that i’ve ever had control over. You think of what you want to make, and then you make it. Over time I became better and better with the help of my mother’s strong encouragement and my 3rd grade teachers willingness to place me into a talented art class that was only available to 4th and 5th graders. Ive been very lucky in that sense. Since becoming a professional, I’ve come to realization that my art was controlling me this whole time. Giclée (pronounced "zhee-clay") is a neologism for the process of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing. The word "giclée" is derived from the French language word "le gicleur" meaning "nozzle", or more specifically "gicler" meaning "to squirt, spurt, or spray". It was coined in 1991 by Jack Duganne, a printmaker working in the field, to represent any inkjet-based digital print used as fine art. The intent of that name was to distinguish commonly known industrial "Iris proofs" from the type of fine art prints artists were producing on those same types of printers. The name was originally applied to fine art prints created on Iris printers in a process invented in the early 1990s but has since come to mean any high quality ink-jet print and is often used in galleries and print shops to denote such prints.