The fish figures are drawn by Hayes in specific yoga poses with unhealthy foods illustrated on each page.The slipcase has two realistic rubber fishes attached to each side.WEB site 2013: Ric Haynes was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1945. As a child he constantly made art that told stories and spent hours producing large works that depicted epic battles, circus life, and Indian wars and villages. He went to a boys' school that was located next to a reformatory and often was confused with those who were serving time. Haynes attended The Maryland Institute College of Art in 1964-68 on a Ford Foundation Grant, and later the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1967, where he studied with Walter Murch, Ben Shahn and Philip Pearlstein. He briefly attended The University of Pennsylvania where he refused to paint like his teachers, and in 2002 he received a MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Norwich University. He teaches painting and creative book making at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Library of Congress and the Getty Foundation as well as other private and public collections. He is currently planning a show at HallSpace in Boston that will include chocolate sculpture inspired by characters from his paintings. He lives in Quincy with his wife, Lorraine, and a ton of memories and memorabilia, which fuel his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.