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I visited Seattle at the very end of this summer with the goal of getting to know the place- to sprinkle a little dash of the west on my mind. (If one has yet to visit Seattle, I highly recommend it.) If you make yourself vulnerable and put yourself in a state of awareness you will not be disappointed. While this blog is not the place for specifics, my visit to the Seattle art Museum's exhibit of Andrew Wyeth really enlightened me to a way of thinking about place.

There was a quote in the exhibit about what drove Wyeth to paint- his answer was the place- his community in Chadds Ford, PA, their interaction with the landscape, and the landscape itself. His art came from an unyielding love and curiosity for that place- the borders of which- however vague geographically, are clear in his art.


Andrew Wyeth   Winter, 1945