mediums, including print, sculpture and animation. He makes rugs, posters, postcards and decals. His work ranges from the Warhol-like "Lucas Cows," a decal of pastel-colored cows, to "Wipe!," a rug featuring a black and white drawing of a man with his torso cut in half, blood oozing from what's left of his belly.

He infuses these objects with the same off-kilter sensibilities that made Devo into a punk/New Wave sensation.

Man on a Mission

Born and raised in Akron, Mothersbaugh says he can remember being curious how kids knew the right answers when the teacher asked them to add numbers or read a sentence written on the chalk board. He didn't know what a chalk board was, and he didn't know how they knew the right thing to say. The reason?He was legally blind. But he didn't know it at the time.

"I did have 20/20 vision from six inches away," he says as he sits in the Mutato Muzik studio space where he records. "I remember examining things close up. I remember thinking there was an innate life force in everything and being fascinated with texture and plants and insects and even inanimate objects. People adjust to whatever they have in terms of vision."

When he got glasses, he immediately wanted to know how people experienced color and thought it was possible that his red was different from other people's reds.

"I became very curious about things people had that were the same and what thing people had that were unique and what that meant," he says, describing the moment