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Scott's appreciation of the probable contemporaneity of the visitor and the Rockwell scene seems spot-on. An intriguing question is whether the gallery visitor might recognize himself in the boy, ...

A theme that occurs to me emerges from the monk's posture: small, compact, and virtually collapsed into an illustration of monk's vocation, i.e., an embodiment of Inner Life. Such a theme would ...

Sunflowers in shade surely display the very essence of optimism.  This is an apt image for our times. Every year I plant a line of polebeans alongside our house, also where rays don't reach 'til ...

"Why, they're just like us!" This photo arouses viewers' delight in recognition of behavior that seems so...so... human . The powerful theme here is a touchstone for all species. We humans are ...

What a good and perceptive title! It cuts one loose from Modern demands of daily accounting in favor of our organic ways of seasonal lifestyles. i.e., planting, harvest, etc. The leaf's topography ...

Goldilocks finds her "just right" seating among a field of choices which includes a lovely Adirondack chair, "Though we don't live in town, we have neighbors" -- the curving road helps establish a ...

Ghost performers reaching out to a ghost audience? The scene brings to mind our own excellent outdoor venue in Washington State: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gorge_Amphitheatre

Like a flawless gem on a velvet pillow.

Pure joy.

This color poem stirs emotional responses often associated with blue and orange.  Among them:  the energy, creativity, and enthusiasm of orange, plus the stability, confidence, intuition, and ...

Amazingly three-dimensional.  The powerful aura of physical presence renders circumstances almost irrelevant.  Being overwhelms doing.

Dreamlike qualities, and suggesting compactness -- not at all as I would imagine Moscow, i.e., without onion domes. I also prefer the darker-foreground version -- almost a floating mirage.

At home.

The crane towers (center left) each have paired lights which suggest eyes.  This brought back memories of an illustration seen years ago for H.G. Wells, "War of the Worlds."

This generates emotions associated with absence of friends/family members.  Christmas decoration and warm light rouse one's thoughts to poignant times together. Although there are few elements in ...

This terrain seems closed, in the sense that understanding it would demand exploration by foot moreso than by eye.   I would want a companion -- human or canine.

My impression is of organic structure, as might be rendered by means of some microscopic, anatomical medical probe. The photo expands my sense of meaning of "enclosure."

Point Defiance Zoo. Tacoma, Washington. Christmas 2018

Theme is definitely owned by the birds, especially in #2, where they are better grouped than in #1, and stand out against the dark background. For #2, small crops at left and bottom could boost ...