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An individual heart shock…

June 15, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“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″

A pause

June 8, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

” 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)

Beauty that Lasts Over Time

May 18, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“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″

An Acquired Taste

May 11, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

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

Mile Marker 478, 16″x22″

Imagine It

May 4, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“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″

Embraces of the Sun

April 6, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!” — Sitting Bull

Dahlquist photograph of golden wheat fields

Mile Marker 294, 22″x34″

Lights of the Earth

March 30, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.” — Anne Lamott

Dahlquist plains photograph on gold painted steel

Mile Marker 291, 22″x34″

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Pick of the week, March 23

March 23, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.” — William Alexander

Mile marker 532, 16″x22″

Pick of the week, March 16

March 16, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“These days, in the age of movement and connection, space, as Marx had it in another context, has been annihilated by time; we feel as though we can make contact with almost anywhere at any moment. But as fast as geography is coming under our control, the clock is exerting more and more tyranny over us. And the more we can contact others, the more, it sometimes seems, we lose contact with ourselves.” Pico Iyer

Mile Marker 294, 22″x34″

Pick of the week, March 10

March 10, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.” — Paul Tillich

Mile Marker 453, 35″ x 53″

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