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J. L. Williams "Capasso" is a retired Navy veteran, aerospace entrepreneur, inventor and artist currently residing in Sandpoint, ID. He is originally from Kankakee, Illinois but joined the military when he was 17. He served in the US Navy for 24 years and was a naval aircrewman and sensor operator onboard the P-3C Orion aircraft. His travels have given him a unique world perspective that he draws his inspiration from. He is married to the lovely Leilani Williams from Hawaii and they have 6 adult children. Jeff is very much interested in adventure, travel and painting. He enjoys secluded, exotic locations that few have a chance to visit except in their dreams. He goes by the name of "Capasso" for his art because of his love of Italian culture and his favorite subject, slightly abstracted Italian landscapes. In his art, his tastes and styles vary greatly. He has experimented in cubism, futurism, abstract expressionism and realism. In some work, he strives to document the horrors of war through the eyes of one who has seen it firsthand. In other works such as his Italian series he tries to capture the romance of Sicily and the timelessness of Mediterranean fishing villages. As his interests also lie in high technology, subjects sometimes involve artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, string theory and parallel universes.