J. Michael Welton: Doors Between Art and Architecture

Artist Sargam Griffin's epiphany arrived, appropriately enough, in Rome. "It was in the Vatican, of all places," she says. "You know, 25,000 people a day go down to the Sistine Chapel, but I was in a museum apartment there, with just contemporary works of art - sculptures 20 feet tall and paintings, all very modern." She looked at the old walls and the modern art and realized she wanted to dedicate herself to that kind of work. Then she went home to Healdsburg, Calif. in the middle of wine count...