Columbus artist Rick Borg’s (b. 1958) paintings and three-dimensional pieces fall loosely into the broad categories "folk" or "outsider." Each circus performer, each human or animal "portrait," including the more recent abstracts, vibrates with spontaneity. Yet, intention, spirituality, and practice undergird his modus operandi: a fast-track repetitive brushwork that enables him to render objects, animals, and people in a childlike or naive way. The artist is in love with colors, bold and bright, sometimes deliberately sullied. He often uses recycled oil-based enamels, and sometimes allows his paint to drip and run. In most cases, he draws with a wide brush, occasionally with a magic marker. He is the master of learning and unlearning technique and aesthetic pedagogy. How can we tell the archer from the bow? There is always something weird and fun and authentically Jungian, dream-inspired, about a Borg. (Although Borg himself does not frequently base his paintings on actual dreams, the source being his center of imagination.)