I started this by drawing tigers at the Museum of Natural History in New York with Steve Petronis and Kanaka Rajan (who was drawing in public for the first time). A few weeks later, I was in a tiny Natural History museum in the outskirts of Charlotte, North Carolina while visiting family. I found a few cats to add to my drawing. At one point, I was strolling down a hallway when someone approached me with a shocked look on his face and said, ”are you Tommy Kane?” Turns out I am. His name was Aldo and he was a big fan of my work. He just couldn’t fathom meeting me in Gastonia, North Carolina. We had a lot of laughs about how small the world is. I gave him some Tommy Kane swag. As he walked away, other people approached me and asked who I was, wondering if I was some minor celebrity in their midst. I answered honestly and said, “I was nobody in particular.”
