Letter from the art world
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Imagining Alaska, 2014
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MY PATH TO DRAWING AND WATER- dles during meetings. If the meetcolor flows from an unusual source: ing was long enough, the doodles my business notebooks. became quite intricate (In Exile, Three years ago when I retired, 1999). I decided it might be a good idea to throw out 20 years’ worth of notebooks. The old ones were stacked up in a couple of large moving boxes, and the new ones were piled up in my home office. Not unlike many other professionals, I’d drawn doo-
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On the off-chance that my notebooks had some value, I decided to show them to Kathryn Olive, a good friend and artist. I figured I wouldn’t be embarrassed if she told me that my doodles weren’t worth saving. Within 30 minutes, notebook pages were scattered across her office and she was proposing that I do an art show at St. Philips Episcopal Church in Durham. However, she warned text and illustrations by ANDREW SILTON
