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Summer Lake Hot Springs, May, 2016
ink, dye and graphite on board
4.25″ x 10.5″
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Rocky Butte 2, 2016 Intaglio, ink and monotype on Langdell Luster paper 7″ x 10″
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Sunriver Observatory, 2016, ink, dye and graphite on board 6.5″x 8.5″
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View From The Studio, 2016 ink, dye and graphite on board 6.25″ x 8.75″
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Irving Park: Looking West, 2016 ink, dye and graphite on board 6.25″x 9.5″
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Off Season Chairlift, 2016. Intaglio and monotype on Langdell Luster paper. 7″ x 10″
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Gales Creek, 2016 ink, dye and graphite on board 4.25″ x 6.5″
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Rocky Butte 1, 2016 Intaglio, ink and monotype on Arches 88 paper 7″ x 10″
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Fremont Bridge and Cranes 2, 2016 watercolor and intaglio on Langdell Luster paper 5.5″ x 8″
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Irving Park: Looking Up , 2016 ink, dye and graphite on board 6.25″x 9.5″
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Fremont Bridge and Cranes 1, 2016 Ink and intaglio on Langdell Luster paper 5.5″ x 8″
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Confluence of Sandy and Bull Run Rivers, 2016 ink, dye and graphite on board 4.25″ x 6.5″
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Broadway Bridge and Willamette River, 2016 ink, dye and graphite on board 10.5″ x 4.25″
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Cove Palisades Park, 2016. Intaglio, ink and monotype on Langdell Luster paper. 8″ x 8″
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Roundabout, 2016 ink, dye and graphite on board 6.25″x 9.5″
“Stars are made of flaming gas, but constellations are made of stories.” -Rebecca Solnit
When I started painting in Portland, I would draw or collage a city map on the back endpaper of my sketchbooks for mostly practical reasons: I used it to find my way around town. Invariably this map would become embellished with notes and symbols as I located places of interest at the time. The map on my mobile phone has stars to show where my friends live: people, places and events in our lives become points of navigation, too.
At the time I’m writing this statement, people are enthusiastic about a game in which imaginary creatures appear over a camera image of the player’s surroundings. But it doesn’t take mobile technology to augment our experience of the physical world: memories and shared history give places unseen significance.
Like stars in the sky or pins on a map, artificial lights suggest shapes, and those shapes suggest stories, and those stories depend on what the teller sees and remembers and loves. Using different materiaIs to hand color prints can suggest different moods and narratives. I paint places that many people can recognize, but I’ll never be able to tell all of the stories people connect to those places. Instead, sometimes looking at streetlights and sometimes at stars, I’ve made up a few stories of my own.