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Jay Steensma, Young Hawk, oil on paper, 23.5 x 44.5" framed, 1992
NORTHWEST CONFLUENCE
Helmi Juvonen, Guy Anderson, E.V. Wick, Ed Kamuda, Peter Belknap, Jay Steensma, Ree Brown, Gregg Laananen, William Ivey, Launi Lucas, Clayton James
Jan 30th - Feb 23rd
opening reception: Saturday, Feb 1st, 4-6pm
THOMAS WOOD
Bugs in a Bowl
A posthumous exhibit of Thomas Wood etchings focusing on the wonderful absurdity of his humor.

Thomas Wood, Equality Under the Law, etching, chíne collé, 13 x 11", 2021
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The first time I visited Tom Wood in his studio was about 9 years ago. We were meeting to decide if we should work together. Sometime during that meeting Tom tore a page out of a magazine and gave it to me. it was a poem that he thought would enlighten me to his world view.
Bugs in a Bowl
Han Shan, that great and crazy, wonder-filled Chinese poet of a thousand years ago, said:
We’re just like bugs in a bowl. All day going around never leaving their bowl.
I say, That’s right! Every day climbing up
the steep sides, sliding back.
Over and over again. Around and around.
Up and back down.
Sit in the bottom of the bowl, head in your hands,
cry, moan, feel sorry for yourself.
Or.
Look around. See your fellow bugs.
Walk around.
Say, Hey, how you doin’?
Say, Nice Bowl!
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-David Wolf Budbill
Fellow journeyers, we are certainly all in this together. In this exhibit we celebrate the wit, humanity, trenchant observations, satire and political commentary that can be found judiciously sprinkled throughout Wood's etchings.

Thomas Wood, Edison from Oyster Dome, etching, chíne collé, 4 x 8", 2021