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mattbellWhen we last left our fair heroes, they were in Eastern Tennessee.
Art:
The city of Gatlinburg TN was also kitschy, but more in a faux-traditional Appalachian kind of way. There was something that looked interesting though -- a 8-or-so mile road through the country with a loose association of small craft shops called the "Gatlinburg Arts and Crafts Community". We went to a lot of the shops and met some of the artists and craftspeople. It was interesting talking to them -- they had all the passion and creativity that I'd expect, but they also were, for a lack of a better word, "normal". There was none of the wildness that I've come to expect out of most of the career artists I know in San Francisco. They were very nice and friendly, but if you met them at a supermarket, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart from any of the other small-town residents.
Here's some of the art:
Bowls constructed from sliced walnuts. I bought a couple.
The word "cephalic" occurred to me as the appropriate adjective for a sliced walnut's appearance. They look like little MRI cross sections.
Uprooted root systems, carved and polished:
Works in progress:
What other artists get to work with chainsaws on a regular basis?
Art:
The city of Gatlinburg TN was also kitschy, but more in a faux-traditional Appalachian kind of way. There was something that looked interesting though -- a 8-or-so mile road through the country with a loose association of small craft shops called the "Gatlinburg Arts and Crafts Community". We went to a lot of the shops and met some of the artists and craftspeople. It was interesting talking to them -- they had all the passion and creativity that I'd expect, but they also were, for a lack of a better word, "normal". There was none of the wildness that I've come to expect out of most of the career artists I know in San Francisco. They were very nice and friendly, but if you met them at a supermarket, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart from any of the other small-town residents.
Here's some of the art:
Bowls constructed from sliced walnuts. I bought a couple.
The word "cephalic" occurred to me as the appropriate adjective for a sliced walnut's appearance. They look like little MRI cross sections.
Uprooted root systems, carved and polished:
Works in progress:
What other artists get to work with chainsaws on a regular basis?
