Category: Portfolios
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Baling Twine | Twisp, WA | April 2019 Things pile up. It’s not too far-fetched to claim that a primary law of life is Accumulation. Books on shelves, dimes on dressers, hairs in drains. Or heaps of memories, blessings, regrets (college sweethearts come to mind?). I like to imagine that our ranching neighbor has tracked…
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Quail | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 We see what dangles before our eyes. That’s easy. But don’t you sometimes sense there’s more? That maybe something exists behind the everyday veil, out of focus, beyond reach? When the light is right, my peripheral vision catches
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Taxidermy | Ellensburg, WA | February 2019 What scares you? Each of us faces fears that affect our lives — public speaking, heights and crowds, revealed secrets, big teeth on carnivores. Fear inhibits the spirit, hardens the heart, suffocates the soul. You’d find romance in Rome if you could steel your nerves to fly. I…
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Mirror | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 A small boy sits on the floor in a car dealership’s play area and stacks blocks. Each time he leans forward, a carnival mirror on a nearby wall catches his reflection. It distorts his cherub-like face into a monster mask with malevolent eyes and teeth. I have…
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Tulip, Study #5 | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 Flowers wallow in attention. After all, they’re the flashy wrappings of the tulip’s sex organs. All lushness and lust. So I felt bad ignoring the plant’s workhorse systems, the leaves and roots that provide the food and nutrients that make those beautiful blooms. It’s a…
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Tulip, Study #3 | East Wenatchee, WA | April 2019 I often forget about the delicacy of the world. Driving a car, living in a house, walking concrete streets — all dull my awareness of Nature’s exquisite workmanship. How and why could a tulip’s complexity emerge from a seed? Where is its programming? What directs…
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Mallard | Greensboro, NC | April 2019 We can immerse ourselves in beauty without a trip to the Grand Canyon or Niagara Falls. Sometimes a dog leaping for a tossed ball satisfies the need for wonder. Sometimes birdsong mixes perfectly with friends’ laughter to create
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Brushes | Asheville, NC | April 2019 Artists leave behind more than paint on canvas. Their creative efforts touch souls long after the brush strokes dry. Asheville artist Jonas Gerard, a dynamo who reportedly paints in an ecstatic flurry, invites visitors to reap inspiration from his richly spattered studio. Colors glow from hundreds of brushes…
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Tunnel | Asheville, NC | April 2019 We often know our direction but not our destination. What matters is to move forward and hope our route’s significance becomes
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