There’s an idiom some people ask to find out if you understand them. They’ll say - “See What I’m Saying?” It’s a little odd, especially for non-native English speakers, because you can hear what someone is saying but can’t literally see they’re saying.

Very early in my radio reporting career I was sent to cover the opening of a visual art exhibit. My editor said go cover an art exhibit and we’ll put it on the radio. An art exhibit on the radio.

Artist Peter Max became a counter-culture icon after creating fliers for the 1967 hippie “Be-In” in New York. He made the cover of Life Magazine and appeared on The Tonight Show.

In 1986 I covered an exhibition by Max in Columbus, Ohio for WOSU-AM. Here’s that report…

(INSERT PETER MAX AUDIO)

That was a story on artist Peter Max I filed for WOSU in 1986. In the pre-digital years this story was copied a number of times so the sound quality got muddy.

Max is still alive at 88 years old. It turns out that putting visual art on the radio’s not so tough after all if you see what I’m saying.

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