Christopher Myott can’t quite recall when exactly he decided to turn art into a career—or if he even made the decision consciously. As far as he was concerned, being an artist was his only possible future.
Myott lives with his wife in a Civil War-era house that he bought when he moved back to the small mill town he grew up in—Jaffrey, set alongside the Contoocook River in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. It’s an old house, but that suits Myott just fine. As far as he’s concerned, the more worn out something is, the more of a story it has to tell. And that rings true not only for his home but also for his daily runner—an old, well-worn BMW R 75.…