Tag Archives: Great plains

An Eye Made Quiet

June 15, 2018 by Chris | 0 Comments

“With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”  -William Wordsworth

Mile Marker 589, size 16″x 22″

 

Nearly Bound to Happen

February 7, 2017 by Chris | 0 Comments

“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

Mile Marker 549, 11″x14″

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Longing for Simplicity

January 11, 2016 by Chris | 0 Comments

 

“Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.”
–Ursus Wehrli

Mile Marker 519, Triptych 45"x29" (x3)

Mile Marker 519, Triptych 45″x29″ (x3)

 

 

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Summer does come…

June 22, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“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

Pick of the week, March 3

March 3, 2015 by Chris | 0 Comments

“And we do not have to travel far to get away from our less considered habits. The places that move us most deeply are often the ones we recognize like long-lost friends; we come to them with a piercing sense of familiarity, as if returning to some source we already know.” —  Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Mile Marker 532, 16"x22"

Mile Marker 532, 16″x22″

Pick of the week

December 23, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”  – Edith Wharton

Great Plains photograph

Mile Marker 381, 22″x34″

Pick of the week

October 27, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

 

“There’s an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it’s really a heroes place.” — Ian Frazier author of  Great Plains

Mile Marker 470, 16″x22″

 

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Weekly Artwork, September 15

September 15, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Art, it seems to me, should simplify. It is very near the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.”   — Willa Cather

Mile Marker 88, 22"x34"

Mile Marker 88, 22″x34″

 

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Pick of the week, August 18

August 18, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.” —  Jacob Lawrence

Mile Marker 462, 35″x51″

 

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Pick of the week, July 14

July 15, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”  —  Marcus Garvey

Mile Marker 382, 34" x 22"

Mile Marker 382, 34″ x 22″

 

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