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Circus Milurkus
Archival Inkjet on Paper
36 "H x 24"W, 2019
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The Dark Place
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 10
23"H x 27.5"W, 2019
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About Loss
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 5
24"H x 32.5"W, 2019
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Final Staircase
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 10
25.5"H x 18.5"W, 2019
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My Parents, Robert Marshall Chew and
Alice Eleanor Eastlake Chew, who always
encouraged my artistic dreams. They
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Page from Haeckel's "Art Forms In Nature" |
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Skagit Delta ~ Wiley Slough
Every April for 37 years my wife and I have taken a birdwatching walk along Wiley Slough, where the South Fork of the Skagit River enters Puget Sound. The glimmering wetlands there, rich with wildlife diversity, are for me a mystical place. In 2019 I wondered if an artist who had devoted most of his career to imaginative curiosity and humor could create a body of work worthy of the natural setting found in the Skagit Delta. Through the use of symmetry, and layering of up to 20 mixed media images in each work, I felt I was able to penetrate into a realm where crows and landscape could share their secrets. And as I began to look at and share my new creations with others, I realized that those “secrets” had different and profound meanings for each viewer. The grand scale of the delta seemed to also demand artwork on a grand scale, so I decided to make some large tapestries. I located a weaver in North Carolina with a Jacquard loom controlled by a computer which could take my digital files directly and we began working together. The current result of this endeavor is four different tapestries and eleven prints.
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The artist with push pins in his mouth
muscles up a tapestry.
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Skagit Delta: Wetlands
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 25
19.5"H x 27.5"W, 2019
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Skagit Delta: Reflection
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 25
20.5"H x 30"W, 2019
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Skagit Delta: Crow Sky
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 25
19.5"H x 26"W, 2019
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Skagit Delta: Startled
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 25
22"H x 33"W, 2019
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Skagit Delta: Gathering Storm
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 25
24"H x 31"W, 2019
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Skagit Delta: A Crow's Tale
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 25
33"H x 26"W, 2019
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Skagit Delta: Slough
Archival Inkjet on Paper, Edition of 25
30"H x 24"W, 2019
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