Category: Still Life
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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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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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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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Gowns | Vancouver, WA | March 2019 Can a wedding nowadays be simple? Ceremonies for even everyday folks are often drenched in drama and excess. Emotions run high over details of the ring, dress, shoes, cake, bouquet, seating charts and — what are we forgetting? — oh yeah, the groom. Brides want celebrity treatment (“This…
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Place Settings | Ellensburg, WA | February 2019 Our tools are laid out at table’s edge, ready for action. We order breakfast. We wait. It’s a good time to practice Zen acceptance. “Right now, it’s like this,” I say to
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Shallot | East Wenatchee, WA | February 2019 A shallot sliced in half resembles the cross-section of a brain. What are its thoughts on life and
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Ram | Winthrop, WA | 2017 “The discoveries of Leonard of Pisa, better known as Fibonacci, are revolutionary contributions to the mathematical world. His best-known work is the Fibonacci sequence, in which each new number is the sum of the two numbers preceding it. When performed, beautiful and incredible patterns begin to emerge. The numbers…
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Vases | Wilmington, NC | 2016 The waitress said the flower delivery was late that morning, so she hadn’t put the bud vases on the tables. Instead, she’d arranged them on a shelf in a dim corner behind the cash register. I noticed that every time she passed the shelf that she’d pause to adjust…
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Dark Buddha | Calgary, Alberta | 2015 “Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
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Buddha | East Wenatchee, WA | 2015 Decades ago, a wooden statue of the Blessed Virgin attracted big crowds to a small chapel in Tickfaw, Louisiana. Apparently, the 3-foot-high statue heard people’s tales of woe and then cried. Tears actually streamed down her cheeks. Her expressed sorrow reportedly had miraculous effects
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