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Boston in the Fall : Holiday in Boston and Provincetown in October 2008. It did not disappoint!

Boston in the Fall

Holiday in Boston and Provincetown in October 2008. It did not disappoint!

Updated: Nov 18, 2008 9:58am PST

Seattle : Seattle | Sculpture installed the week of 11 Sept 2006
"Once the figures were released from protective restraints, everybody handled them with great care. Because they're made of salt, the smallest bump could have crumbled them. In the first good rain, they'll dissolve. 

Titled "Lot's Tribe," the figures are intended as memorials for the "post- 9/11 world," Magrath said. They're based on Associated Press photos he saw on the Internet from the Iraq war: A squatting young boy with his hands tied behind him, wearing a blindfold; a father rushing forward, holding the body of his lifeless son; and a sitting figure whose face is contorted with sorrow, a witness at a tragedy. 

"Lot's wife turned around to see something, and the sight froze her," the Seattle artist said. "These people are in the midst of something that is changing their lives, but images from the war tend to wash over us. We see so many that we don't really see them anymore. In three dimensions, they last a little longer, but they won't last long."

Read the Seattle PI article at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/284602_mourning11.html

Seattle

Seattle | Sculpture installed the week of 11 Sept 2006 "Once the figures were released from protective restraints, everybody handled them with great care. Because they're made of salt, the smallest bump could have crumbled them. In the first good rain, they'll dissolve. Titled "Lot's Tribe," the figures are intended as memorials for ...

Updated: Oct 02, 2006 2:31pm PST

Portland 44 :

Portland 44

Updated: May 08, 2006 1:20pm PST

GRMG Ski Weekend 2006 : Microsoft team event at Stevens Pass, Washington, 24-25 February 2006

GRMG Ski Weekend 2006

Microsoft team event at Stevens Pass, Washington, 24-25 February 2006

Updated: Feb 26, 2006 3:02pm PST

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