The smell of the art utensil, which is to say the smell of wax, can snap a tax-paying adult’s brain back ... Richard has also become an expert on crayons. Torch Red, he tells me, is so rare ...

It features his most rare find of all: Torch Red. "It took me forever to just get that one." Two years ago, Gwyn picked up a large, old plastic bag full of crayons from a local thrift store.