“Copperseverance” Acrylic on canvas By John Woestendiek/2011 Price: $1,800 Depicting man’s dogged uphill climb — the abysses he must cross, the spillage that inevitably occurs, and above all the Sisyphean, never-give-up perseverance that is at his emotional core (know what I’m sayin?) …
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Revealed: My once and future crib
by John Woestendiek • • 0 Comments
I believe there is an interior decorator within all of us. I would like the one within me to leave now. That’s because he’s an annoying little twit who’s spending too much of my time and money in his attempt…
Night at the museum
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In our final days in Baltimore, Ace and I shifted from a house that was empty to one that was very full – of art, and art supplies, and things that, in the homeowner/artist’s view, could, with a little work…
Portraits of Ace, in sculpture
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Ace will clamber right up on a picnic table. He’ll settle on a park bench just like a human. And when it comes to public sculpture, he will — with the slightest encouragement and if there is room — climb aboard…
Reflections on an American icon
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One can see fall in an Airstream, or one can see fall on an Airstream. Here, we do the latter, allowing the shiny aluminum trailer, a genuine American icon, to reflect, in addition to all else it is a reflection…
Mountainside Encounters: Dogs at Dog Mountain
by John Woestendiek • • 1 Comment
Names: Too many to mention. Breeds: Too many to mention. Encountered: At Dog Mountain, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Backstory: Despite the death this year of its founder, Dog Mountain held its annual Dog Fest over the weekend — this time…
Dog Mountain lives on
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Stephen Huneck is gone — he took his own life earlier this year — but his love for dogs remains firmly and artfully stamped on a mountainside in Vermont. His studio, in a giant red barn, is silent. Stacks of wood sit uncarved and…
Seven things you can’t avoid in Santa Fe
by John Woestendiek • • 1 Comment
There’s one thing you can’t avoid in Santa Fe, and that’s dogs. They are everywhere — tall dogs, short dogs, big dogs, small dogs, black, white, brown, red, yellow and brindle dogs. There are smelly hippy, just-passin’-thru dogs (and I’m not saying…