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A R A B E S Q U E

​Currently, I am working on a series of URBAN photographs I took of two dogs in a Port Gamble, Washington boutique. As an art historian, I suppose I should have gotten more information from the boutique owner about the dogs I found lounging in wing-back chairs located almost in the middle of the store. I should have inquired, for example, about what kind of dogs they were and how old
were they and what were their names. The sort of information-gathering process you engage in when you meet a new dog. But the boutique was about to close,
and I was in a hurry. I thought the photographs of the dogs were more
important than asking those questions. I even had a mental image of the
prints I would make. In my mind I made the two lounging dogs into one
and called her ARABESQUE. Three years later, I resurrected the
​photographs and began this series of prints.
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Title: ARABESQUE SLEEPING Media: Photolith, hand colored with Gouache Date: 2020 Frame Size: 24 ½ x 18” Image Size: 16 x 11” Signed on front
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Title: ARABESQUE WANTS A TUMMY RUB Media: Photolith, hand colored with Gouache Date: 2020 Frame Size: 28 ¾ x 19 ½” Image Size: 17 x 10” Signed on front
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TITLE: ARABESQUE GUARD DOG Media: Photolith, hand colored with Gouache Date: 2020 Frame Size: 26 x 20” Image Size: 22 x 15” Signed on front
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Catch You in the Early Morning
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Sleeping on Velvet Arms
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Waiting to Catch You at Noon
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Sleeping Next to Velvet Arms
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​But as the case may be, I archived the photographs 
until I finished another dog project.​
 STREET DOGS OF INDIA 
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