{"id":832,"date":"2010-09-06T08:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=832"},"modified":"2010-09-06T08:52:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:52:08","slug":"art-in-the-old-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2010\/09\/art-in-the-old-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Art in the Old-growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Click to enlarge so you can read the text by Janet Scharf, Olympic NP)<\/p>\n

‘An art gallery in the woods,’<\/strong> that’s what I like to call these paintings.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the kind folks at the park, I now have 24 paintings, well, reproductions of them, scattered along the road in Olympic National Park’s Sol Duc Valley. This one was one of the first, and until recently I didn’t have a digital file of it for my portfolio. The fabricator finally sent it to me, so now I’m passing\u00a0it along to\u00a0all of you. It tells the story of the unseen-by-us happenings in the old-growth when the sun goes down, how all sorts of critters appear\u00a0and carry on their lives when we’ve all gone home for the day. In the foreground, a flying squirrel is diggin’ ‘shrooms and upon hearing the rustle of forest duff, a northern\u00a0spotted owl begins\u00a0its predatory plunge from a high perch. The black-tailed deer is\u00a0browsing\u00a0oxalis and\u00a0isn’t aware of the mountain lion’s stealthy approach. And the\u00a0marbled murrelet is\u00a0coming home on the\u00a0last flight of the day, returning to it’s mossy nest with a load of\u00a0herring for it’s chick from the distant Pacific 20 miles away.<\/p>\n

I’ve always liked the idea of using my paintings to\u00a0present an interpretive idea or story about nature. I learn about it. I paint it. I pass it along to the next guy.\u00a0Outdoor fabrication technology is pretty good these days, so this panel will last for decades unless a 500,000-pound tree falls\u00a0on it (which has happened). I love the thought of a car full of visitors\u00a0driving up this beautiful road, eyes open in wonder at the scenery\u00a0and pulling off to read\u00a0this wayside panel – and suddenly they’re immersed in a painting telling a story\u00a0about nature they never knew about.\u00a0I think art should teach and inspire – and then move the viewer to positive future actions.\u00a0Is this art? I’d say it is.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this week.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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(Click to enlarge so you can read the text by Janet Scharf, Olympic NP) ‘An art gallery in the woods,’ that’s what I like to call these paintings. Thanks to the kind folks at the park, I now have 24 paintings, well, reproductions of them, scattered along the road in Olympic National Park’s Sol Duc … Continue reading Art in the Old-growth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[55,71,82,86,110,125],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","category-uncategorized","tag-interpretive-panels","tag-murals","tag-olympic","tag-parks","tag-sol-duc-river","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}