Curtis Pete is one of my absolute favorite current artists. I have two pieces by him, and hope to collect more. I posted about my ring by him and meeting him at Indian Market in this thread:
(sorry its a long thread–post 89.)
So funny that you mentioned boarding an airplane @Ziacat because if you scroll down to post 93 TSA did actually say something about it! (I was still allowed to board the airplane luckily).