Professor Lundquist classifies his work as Surrealist Illustration; it illustrates a story or myth that does not exist. He whimsically calls it “the illustrated adventures of the mythical truth of singing fish of Montreal.” For example, his computer illustration “Poissons de Chant 40 "I TOLD you a country duet would work ...Well I DID ya know?!!" depicts a computer generated image of a woman dressed as though she lived in the 1940s or 50s. She is singing into a standing microphone nextto a huge fish that is inside a fishbowl that looks like a carpwho appears to also be singing into a microphone positioned outside the fish bowl. Poissons de Chant is French for singing fish.

And of course, the singing ladywas right: the duet works.

The professor's interest in computerized art came at the dawn of computer graphic revolution when he was in his late 30s and early 40s. He had been a draftsman and “working as a manager at a time when the number crunching part of computers became the weapon of choice among managers,” he said. Then computers became affordable and powerful enough for graphics, so he returned to creating art and teaching art part-time.

Professor Lundquist will be teaching Art 10 C and 20 A in Spring 2009 semester at SMC. The former is third in a series of art classes on the theory and application of art design using computers. It's “one of the design series in the art department. It's the basic stuff you learn in design class but its done on computer,” he said. His other class, 20 A, is a beginner class on drawing and composition.

The professor's art is truly remarkable and worth a visit, or two. Surrealism is a cerebral expression of that which lies within the deepest aspects of human imagination. Even if you don't understand his art, it will make you smile. The professor might disagree: he said “Its just an excuse to make pictures. I get a big kick out of making pictures.”