Our cover this issue, Roadside Attraction, is by painter and sculptor Julie Maren.  Maren is a native Coloradan and graduate of University of Colorado at Boulder.  Her work is in private and corporate collections throughout North America and Japan.  It has a narrative quality, expressing themes of the human experience and different psychological states.  Maren finds inspiration in everyday life:   "I often paint portraits of people I see for brief moments in time - like a pensive cowboy in an airport.  The concept of the 'unsuspecting model' is very appealing to me."