Thanks to the City of Olympia Arts Commision and ArtsWalk map cover jury for selecting me as the map cover artist for the 50th ArtsWalk! It is an honor to be the first photo artist selected for the map cover, and I am happy to have been part of opening up that possibility for others. Come see a few of my other images at Childhood's End Gallery starting Friday. Hope to see you there!

Showing at Capitol Florist for February

How the Light Gets In/Dream Glimpses
Ceramics by Trudes Tango, Photos by Duncan Green

Trudes:
I am drawn to working with clay because of its transformative nature. It changes drastically at each stage -- from its wet, raw, supple beginnings, to its brittle, powdery, leather hard stage, to its final form after it has been annealed by the fire, becoming vitrified, strong, but still breakable.

In these pieces, I wanted to push the clay to its limits -- throwing slabs of clay on different hard surfaces over and over until the clay was altered and stretched sometimes to the point of tearing apart, almost to the point of too much. Until the clay was left with scars and wounds that could be beautifully accentuated by oxide washes and glazes.

Duncan:
I think of these photos as "dream-glimpses". There is a bunch of them in a clump on one wall, and they're meant to be seen together, in no particular sequence, but in relationship to each other. The images in a night of dreams may seem non-sequiters to the conscious mind, but taken together form a gestalt impression that holds perhaps some ineffable meaning, some shred of memory, some faint scent of the ungraspable...

Artswalk coming in April

You might see something like this at Capitol Florist this Spring Artswalk in Olympia. I'm working on a series of diptychs and they need to be ready by April 1st! The prints are mostly made, but I need to decide how to frame or mount them, and it is a challenge. At least I feel like I have something new to show which is a nice feeling. See more of the diptychs and other dreamy images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/duncangreen/sets/72157604092822743/

PhotoArts Activity

A small flurry of activity on the photo-arts scene: have submitted for three competitions/gallery shows in the last week, and another one is in the works. We'll see what happens! In any case it feels good to be putting my work out there.

I don't know what it means.

Showing at Fusion for Spring Artswalk

https://www.facebook.com/events/157040207758191/

Check out the FB event page here...