Category: Portfolios
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Island | Soap Lake, WA | 2008 Ancient volcanic humps — big ones of basalt —add interest to a long stretch of seep lakes in the Columbia Basin. At sunset, these islands of dark gray columnar rock seem to absorb light rather than reflect it — negative space in an otherwise illuminated landscape.
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Icicle | Twisp, WA | 2008 Fingers white with cold, breath freezing in my nostrils, roof-melt dripping into six-foot ice horns. Morning at 10 below is like a double image offset a few millimeters from the real world — nothing is quite as it looks. Even deer are confused. Apples they’ve pulled off the old…
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3 Pears | East Wenatchee, WA | 2008 Bodies mesh together — me and you, us and them — because our bulges and curves fit just right. Spooning. Like fleshy puzzle pieces. Sometimes something similar happens with personalities. One person’s exuberance swells to fill another’s depression. Difficult to know who’s leaning on whom.
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