However different the style of each artist may be, among the striking aspects of these drawings is how meticulously planned they are: Each artist has developed a systematic way to order a possibly chaotic inner reality into two neat dimensions. Eugene Andolsek, who worked as a clerk for the Rock Island Railroad and did most of his art at his mother's kitchen table, recalls "waking up sometimes and a drawing was there and I didn't even know how it got there." But the exactitude with which he creates his elaborate, brightly colored, mandalalike designs is astonishing. And Martin Thompson's graph paper and colored-pen extravaganzas (for which he also makes use of a handsaw, a scalpel, and Scotch tape) rely on baroque mathematical equations, mirror images, and a painstaking and ingenious procedure—he surgically removes his errors with a scalpel and replaces them with squares held in place by a backing of tape—for rectifying mistakes.