Author Archives: Chris

Photographic Mixed Media Artist

Simple Luxuries

I’m not going to lie, as much as I love traveling, and no matter how itchy my feet become when I am stationary for too long, I also love my home, my community and the life Kyle and I have built in Kansas City. Sometimes it is truly hard to leave. And each summer as we begin our summer tour, we are faced with finding someone that will look after our house and take care of our household of furry companions. But what’s truly amazing is when find something more, someone that will look after and love our home as much as we do. We are so lucky to have found that person this year, the multi-talented artist that we adore, Megan Gallant.

How wonderful it is to come home to this note from Megan!

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Things I love about this house

  • The simple but fantastic layout – I like to use both the upstairs and downstairs sitting areas, depending on my mood
  • That I can set my favorite temperature in the upstairs shower and it doesn’t change when I turn the water on and off
  • Everything on top of the downstairs bathroom counter, including the sink – wonderful collection of objects*
  • Beautiful yummy local veggies through your CSA!
  • National Geographics laying around the house. I love this magazine!
  • The fantastic collection of cooking spices and fresh herbs in pots out back 

 

*Sink by artist Conner Burns, art objects by Justin Teilhet, Cathy Broski & Kyle Osvog

It is Not Far


“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”
Walt Whitman

Chris Dahlquist photograph of a lone road between the fields

“Mile Marker 469″, 35″x51”


Please contact me if you are interested in adding this or any other piece to your collection.

 

A promissory note…

“Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.” — Hal Borland

Mile Marker 515, 35x51

Mile Marker 515, 35×51

Summer does come…

“Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.” — Thomas Carlyle

Mile Marker 523, 35x51

Mile Marker 523, 35×51

An individual heart shock…

“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don’t think, ‘oh I love this painting because it’s universal’ ‘I love this painting because it speaks to mankind’. That’s not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It’s a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you. An individual heart shock. . . .A really great painting is fluid enough to work its way into the mind and heart through all different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Mile Marker 19, 22"x34"

Mile Marker 19, 22″x34″

A pause

” The need for an empty space, a pause, is something we have all felt in our bones; it’s the rest in a piece of music that gives it resonance and shape.” Pico Iyer

Mkle Marker 451, 29"x15" (x4)

Mkle Marker 451, 29″x15″ (x4)

Beauty that Lasts Over Time

“I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.” —  Elliott Erwitt

Mile Marker 501, 16"x22"

Mile Marker 501, 16″x22″

An Acquired Taste

“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.” — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Mile Marker 478, 16"x22"

Mile Marker 478, 16″x22″

Imagine It

“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.” — Chuck Palahniuk

Chris Dahlquist golden landscape photograph of windmill

Mile Marker 19, 22″x34″

I Trust in Nature

“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” — Robert Browning

Dahlquist landscape photograph

Mile Marker 466, 16″x22″