Sunday, August 15, 2010


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Originally uploaded by doug_r
Suddenly this sort of work feels familiar yet so far away at the same time. I understand this image now - what makes it work and why, what I'd like to do with it and where I'd like to take it. At the same time it feels so far away from my work of just a few months ago. A lot of miles traveled lately - and a lot of energy expended to move out of the familiar and the comfortable. Now my skills need to catch up with my vision again - time to get busy and start learning again and move on from making more of the same sorts of stuff.

This was, I think, some sort of shaft for carrying munitions to the upper floors of the big concrete structure at Fort Worden near Port Angeles, Washington. Now that nearly all the machinery has been pulled out, the windows taken out and the entire structure left open to the air, it's a playground of light and shadow.

Taken during the TME Whidbey Island Workshop 2010.