Tommy Simpson is a woodworker, sculptor, furniture maker, painter, and poet acclaimed for his witty and joyous interpretations of Americana - a true original in the art world. Two Looks to Home is a most unusual illustrated memoir/art book, illuminating his unique sensibility and how the work of an artist comes to be. With seasoned insight and humor, and many a pun, Simpson sprinkles autobiographical vignettes, childhood candids, and wry poems amid the sparkling reproductions of his ingenious creations and Klee-like paintings. Two Looks to Home concludes with a chapter on a full-size "garden" of Simpson's fantasy sculptures that he is creating for an exhibition entitled "Garden of the Heart." It will open at the American Craft Museum in New York City in June 2000 and travel around the country. FROM THE CRITICS Julie S. Ardery - American Craft With his new book, Two Looks at Home, Simpson has created another pastiche-part memoir, part poetry collection, past artist's retrospective. The handsome volume is organized around recollections from the author's youth. Episodes of mischief, pleasure, fright and hurt are interspersed with his balmy free verse, family pictures and pages from his sketchbooks.