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© Brett Busang
Saturday, April 05, 2008
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Beynac by Jennifer Young - History on Canvas
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4 comments:
Artists comments sent via email - Paul
"I'll be damned if I can remember what kind of bridge this is, though there is a plaque commemorating it on the South Bank of the canal. It's one of those names you have to memorize. (Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor comes to mind.) But it's good and solid, evocative in a civil engineering sort of way.
Yet it wasn't necessarily the bridge (or its arcane
functioning) that interested me, but a long afternoon in the middle of a lengthy summer, when the air is like a gauzy curtain and all movement seems half-arrested. Here is also a glimpse of a still-visible trading culture fed by the tobacco warehouses you can see behind the greatly small Two-Mile Bridge. This is where barges came down the Kanawha Canal and loaded up; they were then lowered into the James on a lock that would be sturdy enough to resume business if anybody cared to use it. The light is typical of a Richmond summer; it is a pale, penetrating light that is pleasantly reductive. A monolithic skyline seems appropriately insubstantial, amidst the earlier, toil-imprinted structures that represent economic striving even as they exude the unintended grandeur of all well-made things.
The Kanawha is a kind of heroic place because it has gamely defied the sort of development that has, by and large, disfigured similar waterfronts around the country. Here along the Kanawha, you get a sense of what it must've been like to arrive, by skiff or bateau, to hear – perhaps for the first time - civilization's tinhorn yawp."
Brett Busang
Is it for sale? Mr. H and I had our first date exactly here. I bet it would make a good anniversary present.
Brett would be very glad to hear from you.
www.brettbusang.com
Any problems, shoot me an email and I'll give him a call.
paxham@hotmail.com
Hi All!
Wanted to let you know Frame Nation is currently hosting an exhibit and sale of Brett's river images. This canal image is actually available in a giclee now.
http://www.FrameNation.net
LOve his work!
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