“In Conversation”

The Grover Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
April 29, 2006 — May 31, 2006

As a visual artist I primarily notice and engage in the world through imagery. Surprisingly, I also listen. I listen to the cacophony of human conversation in crowded rooms, across social media, and in intimate moments of heartfelt searching between loved ones, dear friends and new acquaintances.

I also listen deeply to loons calling one another across a lake, coyotes across our fields, the neighboring sheep and the wind. I most certainly listen to the wind.

Finally, having been in a 48 year marriage with a musician, not surprisingly, I listen to the musical conversations within a band and between a solo performer and their audience.

The images in this show are my attempt to convey my deep engagement in, and appreciation for, the art of conversation.