[Vision2020] Moscow on Sunday Morning

[Janesta]

Thanks, Tom!


The youtube link..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYeItCPJCQw

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
wrote:

> On today's *CBS News' Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood* . . .
>
> Courtesy of *CBS News' Sunday Morning* at:
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/art-thats-delicious-roger-rowleys-fruit-plates/
>
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>
> Art that's delicious: Roger Rowley's fruit plates
>
> *The fruit bowl has inspired many a still life over the years . . . but
> none quite on the scale of the one in the distinctively named town Martha
> Teichner has been to:*
>
> Moscow, Idaho, was named not for the city in Russia, but the one in
> Pennsylvania -- peculiar, right?
>
> So it should come as no surprise that Moscow, Idaho, is also home to
> artist Roger Rowley, whose medium is *fruit plates*.
>
> Weird . . . 'til you see them. And then you say, 'Wow!"
>
> Teichner referred to one fruit plate as "an explosion."
>
> "That's sort of what I was imagining," said Rowley, "to have this thing be
> overwhelming as a visual experience."
>
> Like a giant kaleidoscope, or intricate stained glass windows.
> Some are displayed by seasons -- a calendar of color. "They're arranged
> starting from the earliest one -- January is the upper left -- and they go
> down, through the columns, all the way to the end of December. From
> relatively warm yellows and oranges into the deep, rich blues and dark
> berries. So there is this rainbow, and immediately that sense of the
> seasons is apparent."
>
> Up close, each one has an odd detail to reveal, or a story to tell, such
> as the photo with a strange black blob at the top.
>
> Rowley explained: "My cat loves melon. It just happened to get right up
> there right when I had the camera ready. And so, 'Fine, Bebe, here you go,'
> snap!"
>
> So, why fruit plates? Ten years ago, when this all began, the answer was
> simple: To convince his kids to eat fruit.
>
> The rule he set for himself: nothing too fancy. "I wasn't trying to pick
> the perfect fruit," said Rowley. "I was trying to be true to what it is you
> buy in the store or at the farmers market."
>
> But the Saturday market in Moscow, Idaho, is loaded with some of the most
> luscious fruit imaginable.
>
> Teichner asked, "Do you ever look at the shapes and the colors of the
> things that are available in terms of, 'This is my paint and these are my
> pigments'?"
>
> "Yeah," he replied. "I certainly am [thinking], 'Oh, the orange of an
> apricot would look amazing against the blue of a blueberry.'"
>
> The market just happens to be next to the gallery where the fruit plates
> were being shown.
>
> People do make the connection between what's outside and what's inside --
> no accident since Roger Rowley is its director.
>
> One woman reacted, "It's a true artist who can figure out how to make art
> out of their kids' breakfast plates!"
>
> That *is* the question, after all: When does a plate of fruit stop being
> breakfast, and start being art?
>
> "I'd put it on the breakfast table," said Rowley, "and it would get eaten
> or not eaten. And then, [I] began to just be more conscious about arranging
> it and going, 'Well, let's make this look nice. Maybe then the kids'll eat
> it more if they see this thing that looks aesthetically interesting.' It
> was maybe at least a year of me doing that before I ever took a photograph."
>
> By then, Rowley could see the whole project in his mind -- hundreds of
> fruit plates, photographed in exactly the same way . . . at his back door.
>
> He takes his pictures snapshot style, capturing shadows and reflections.
> The seasons, the weather, leave their signature on his work.
>
> Teichner said, "You didn't go through any kind of agony of making art."
>
> "Oh, no, no, it's very intuitive," he replied. "I mean, you start with the
> natural forms, whether it's an apple or a pear or an apricot, and so you
> have these natural building blocks."
>
> Leaving one more question: When does a plate of fruit stop being art --
> and start being breakfast?
>
> *For more info: *
>
>    - Roger Rowley's Fruit Plate Project <http://www.fruitplate.org/> (
>    fruitplate.org)
>    - Roger Rowley, University of Idaho
>    <http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/news/features/rogerrowley>
>    - <http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/news/features/rogerrowley>Prichard Art
>    Gallery <http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/galleries/prichardartgallery>,
>    University of Idaho
>    - University of Idaho, College of Art & Architecture on Facebook
>    <https://www.facebook.com/uidahocaa>
>    - <https://www.facebook.com/uidahocaa>Latah County Historical Society
>    <http://www.latahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/>, Moscow, Idaho
>
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>
> Photos
>
> http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_1.jpg
>
> http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_2.jpg
>
> http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_3.jpg
>
> http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/fruit-works-of-art/
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>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
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>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
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>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>
> - John Lennon
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