March 3, 2012 - Bud?

Water droplets from a brief shower transform themselves into mini snow globes, sans snow, on the branches of a Japanese Maple whose new leaves are only just beginning to bud.  


If you ever walked University Way in Seattle you it is very likely you've walked by a complete stranger who asks, with a slight nod of their head, "bud?".

March 3, 2012 - Spring Blossoms

Cherry blossoms signal that spring is near!

February 19, 2012 - Young Patron

A young patron of the arts views an 1815 oil on canvas, "Madame H and Her Children" by Louis Andre Gabriel Bouchet at the Seattle Art Museum.  The provenance, or history of ownership, for this piece has some gaps that qualifies it, along with thousands and thousands of other pieces around the world, to be under Holocaust Provenance.  Artwork confiscated by the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s have sometimes, unknown by the museums, found there way in front of the public.  Provenance research ensures that pieces seized by the Nazis are returned to their rightful heirs.  Artwork present in Europe during the Nazi era, or with unclear dates, or gaps, of transfers between owners are listed under the Holocaust Provenance.

February 19, 2012 - Some/One

Do Huh Suh's sculpture "Some/One", is an immense, intimidating suit of armor, some 8 feet high that dominates the Ebsworth Gallery of the Seattle Art Museum.  The imposing "hard, insensitive character of armor", is made up of 40,000 replicated, fictional dog tags representing the delicate individual nature of the lives of fallen warriors.  























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