BEAUTY: Painting--Alex Beck

Perhaps it is because I have friends who have recently lost or are in the process of losing their parents, which of course naturally brings up the deaths of my own parents, but Alex Beck's series "Jack & Ethel" is quite touching. It seems to examine a trip an older couple--someone's parents (or grandparents)--took to Hoover Damn, but the clear, snapshot quality juxtaposed against a kaleidoscopic sense of memory should make us all realize how subjective our lives are. They are ours. The people and loved ones who populate our lives are ours. We want them and need them. And we miss them so when they are gone, when all we have left are snapshots (the kind we take with a camera) and memories (the kind of snapshots we take with our eyes and minds and hearts)...

Top to bottom: Friends, Lover, and Curtains' Stop and Smell the Patterns; Symbiotic Jack & Ethel; Passing Thru; Pit Stop 59; Hoover Traffic; Hoover; Obituary

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