Category: Still Life
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Doughnut | East Wenatchee, WA | 2014 Temptation is an odd phenomenon. Something not particularly good for us — one more beer, one more biker chick, one more doughnut — calls to us, urges us, seduces us to take a taste. And often we succumb, even though we know the likely consequences: wooziness, face slap…
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Face | Moses Lake, WA | 2014 That’s George, the face I see in the wooden steps leading down to the koi pond in the Japanese garden. Always smiling, George reminds me that
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Face the Future | Seabrook, WA | 2013 Some Seattle families spend summers in Seabrook, an almost too-perfect community of vacation homes on the Washington coast. Years ago, the development’s managers installed artful plywood “cutouts” to amuse the kids. Tykes and teens put their faces in the holes and had photos snapped of their fantasy…
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Rolls | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 I wandered down the office hallway to find a cluster of galaxies spiraling across the break room table. Homemade sweet rolls, each one a whirl of flavor, a full pan baked with care by someone who … well, I never got their name, just their irresistible offering. Each bite…
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Three | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Mystery resides in threes, but nobody really knows why. The Musketeers, the Stooges, the Amigos are triangles of brotherhood — sturdy in their support of each other. Writers drive home a point most effectively with three examples, not two. And artists love to align three elements to guide…
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Porcelain | Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Our local museum packs room after room with beautiful art and artifacts. So it wouldn’t surprise me to discover that curators there also consider the building’s restrooms as
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Bur | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 I found myself mesmerized yesterday by a veteran plumber who replaced our hot water tank. He had tools, knowledge and muscle memory to quickly detach pipes and wires — a dance of mastery — and reattach them to the newly installed tank. His skills were a good example…
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Bag Handles | East Wenatchee, WA | 2013 Art often emerges from unexpected places. Take the plastic grocery sack, for instance. It’s common, useful and, in many ways, artfully pliable. Years ago at a local grocery, one “bag boy” — actually a retired gentleman with an appreciation for whimsy — shaped sack handles to mimic…
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Quiet Room | Quincy, WA | 2012 Lines soothe our psyches by providing a focus point for the busy mind. Japanese gardens and buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright incorporate straight lines that encourage mental rest. The comforting line of a distant horizon is one reason we’re drawn repeatedly to the beach. This dedicated quiet…
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Blank Stares | Bellevue, WA | 2012 My 80 facial nodes are spaced differently than yours. That means a computer or smartphone can differentiate between my nostrils, your nostrils and two big grapes resting nose-width apart on a white plate. A very useful computational ability in this digital age, when it seems the no-nostril crowd…
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