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paulhawkwood
Aug 29, 20223 min read
Is it a Barrel, or a Sculpture?
Is this a barrel, or is it a sculpture of light and shadow, texture and curves? And is it simply an attractive planter, or does it have a...
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paulhawkwood
Apr 6, 20222 min read
Forest Stairs, Quiet Light
I find something captivating about stairs, especially ones that spiral or move in harmony with a building space or landscape. The stairs...
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paulhawkwood
Dec 12, 20212 min read
Fountain, Curves, Concrete, Water
Fountain Water is beyond my mind, flowing fluidly over the lip of the fountain and splashing into the pond beneath, over and over....
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paulhawkwood
Aug 9, 20212 min read
The Numinous: Sacredness and Light
I love the word numinous as a word for describing that which we call holy or spiritually alive. One definition of numinous means, "to be...
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paulhawkwood
May 5, 20211 min read
Jutta's Stairs
Jutta's Stairs Something ascends and descends these stairs. What is it? Sunlight? Song? Silence? It is a mystery. Bach the old magician...
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paulhawkwood
Mar 16, 20211 min read
Art and The Garage
Many, many years ago - ok, decades ago - I spent a summer making leather goods with a friend in Central City, Colorado. Most of it was...
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paulhawkwood
Feb 1, 20212 min read
The Breakfast Bowl: Art or Awareness?
About four years ago, I pulled my iPhone out of my pocket and took (made? created? shot?) a photograph of my breakfast bowl. As I sat...
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paulhawkwood
Jan 8, 20213 min read
Intuition, Dead Grasses, and Photography
What does it mean to know something? When I read a non-fiction book, for example, my mind generally understands the information in a...
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paulhawkwood
Nov 30, 20201 min read
The Beauty of Light and Shadow
This is the lampshade on my home office desk in Eugene. I took a photo of it because of how the many lines, shapes, and shadows created...
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paulhawkwood
Nov 17, 20202 min read
Seeing What Can be Seen
It's interesting how a camera can teach us to see. The world is so utterly full of objects, places, shapes and shadows, color and light,...
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paulhawkwood
Nov 14, 20202 min read
Up or Down...or Pausing and Seeing
A staircase in the Willamette National Forest creates both a practical means of getting up and down a hill, and a beautiful sculpture of...
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