The Muse

The concept of a muse is that it serves as a guiding spirit, or source of inspiration. Driving past a huge hollow tree one day, I turned around and risked life and limb to stand in the road and photograph his hollowness from several angles. Afterward, as I drove on, I began to image all the things that could live or hide within a giant tree. At the time I was trying to come up with an entry for a how at the Harlow Gallery in Hallowell. Suddenly, the gallery appeared within the tree, and the image of hopeful artists scattered among its broken limbs and roots, striving to fulfill the age old need of putting faces on thoughts. The funny thing was, the piece was passed by in the Harlow jury process and no one realized it was actually the gallery within the hollow. Later, when it was hanging in the Blue Marble Gallery in Waterville, someone finally figured it out. It was later used for the Harlow Gallery Fall Festival T-shirt fundraiser!

ORIGINAL SOLD, limited edition giclee prints and notecards available**

Delicate Balance

"Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." Chief Seattle, 1855