Rex Wilder is a multi-media artist who identifies as a New Pictorialist. He believes, as Stieglitz did nearly a hundred years ago, mainly that the image should be an aesthetic symbolic record of a scene plus the artist's personal comment and interpretation, capable of transmitting an emotional response to the mind of a receptive spectator. It should show originality, imagination, unity of purpose, a quality of repose, and have an infinite quality about it. “Showing what I see is secondary to demonstrating what I feel,” he says. He is also an award-winning poet, with four books to his credit. A fifth book which combines his images and his verbal reflections is making the rounds now: A Quiet Place to Land, which deals with a remarkable recovery from serious mental illness. He is now Chair of the Board of Directors at The Maple Counseling Center in Los Angeles.