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The attraction of science

It’s been said before (and more explicitly), but I f-ing love science! A scientist can envision many peculiar worlds; not only the one we...

Wild and precious

Remember when your definition of “old” kept changing as you grew from a child, through adolescence, through your 20’s, 40’s and so on? I...

Peace de résistance

Symbols are powerful because they’re a shortcut to the brain, to the soul. Few are as powerfully evocative in the modern western world than

Black Rain Falling

Black Rain has become a metaphor in Japan for the atomic bomb and its aftermath. Hibakusha testimony is a blunt reminder on this horrific 73

Lost highway

Awareness is creeping in that the Alaskan Way viaduct will be leveled sometime this year, another surge in the great Seattle overhaul;...

Alone in the studio with Samuel Beckett

It’s not hard to be making art in a city like Seattle, where the arts are fairly hopping, artists throw open their doors, there’s no...

Jolted by events today, and 72 years ago today

I’m always curious about what inspires and sparks an artist. Personally, I find it hard not to be provoked by what’s going on in the...