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Window shopping

 The best displays in town are selling ideas, not toys
By IAN PAIGE  |  December 13, 2006
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The series of portals ends with a possibly autobiographical scene of an artist in the studio with some of these various elements filling the room as works-in-progress. It is in this creative space, small and interior, that the vastness of all-that-is can be contemplated and explored.

An honorable mention goes to Wary Meyers Decorative Arts on Hampshire Street, where hundreds of clear plastic straws are fused to form crystalline angles extending in all directions like frost on a windshield as a creative act of practiced patience. All of these windows exemplify art-making as spirituality in practice. We have a lot more windows in this town waiting for the right person to fill them with holiday spirit. Any ideas?

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Ian Paige: ianpaige@gmail.com.

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