<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div>On today's <b>CBS News' Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood</b> . . .</div><div> </div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of <i>CBS News' Sunday Morning</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/art-thats-delicious-roger-rowleys-fruit-plates/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/art-thats-delicious-roger-rowleys-fruit-plates/</a></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="title" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-spacing: -0.04em; line-height: 0.9; letter-spacing: -0.07em; font-size: 50px; font-family: nimbus-sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);">Art that's delicious: Roger Rowley's fruit plates</h1><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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:</em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho, was named not for the city in Russia, but the one in Pennsylvania -- peculiar, right? </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So it should come as no surprise that Moscow, Idaho, is also home to artist Roger Rowley, whose medium is <em>fruit plates</em>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Weird . . . 'til you see them. And then you say, 'Wow!"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Teichner referred to one fruit plate as "an explosion." </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"That's sort of what I was imagining," said Rowley, "to have this thing be overwhelming as a visual experience."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Like a giant kaleidoscope, or intricate stained glass windows.</span></p></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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. </span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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!"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, why fruit plates? Ten years ago, when this all began, the answer was simple: To convince his kids to eat fruit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the Saturday market in Moscow, Idaho, is loaded with some of the most luscious fruit imaginable. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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'?"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Yeah," he replied. "I certainly am [thinking], 'Oh, the orange of an apricot would look amazing against the blue of a blueberry.'"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The market just happens to be next to the gallery where the fruit plates were being shown. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People do make the connection between what's outside and what's inside -- no accident since Roger Rowley is its director. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One woman reacted, "It's a true artist who can figure out how to make art out of their kids' breakfast plates!"</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That <em>is</em> the question, after all: When does a plate of fruit stop being breakfast, and start being art?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"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."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He takes his pictures snapshot style, capturing shadows and reflections. The seasons, the weather, leave their signature on his work. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Teichner said, "You didn't go through any kind of agony of making art."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"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."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Leaving one more question: When does a plate of fruit stop being art -- and start being breakfast?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);"><strong>For more info: </strong></p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; color: rgb(32, 32, 34);"><li style="background-image: url(http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/standalone/article-arrow-gray.png); padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; float: none; display: block; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.fruitplate.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(228, 162, 27) !important;">Roger Rowley's Fruit Plate Project</a> (<a href="http://fruitplate.org">fruitplate.org</a>)</li><li style="background-image: url(http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/standalone/article-arrow-gray.png); padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; float: none; display: block; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/news/features/rogerrowley" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(228, 162, 27) !important;">Roger Rowley, University of Idaho</a></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/standalone/article-arrow-gray.png); padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; float: none; display: block; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/news/features/rogerrowley" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(228, 162, 27) !important;"></a><a href="http://www.uidaho.edu/caa/galleries/prichardartgallery" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(228, 162, 27) !important;">Prichard Art Gallery</a>, University of Idaho</li><li style="background-image: url(http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/standalone/article-arrow-gray.png); padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; float: none; display: block; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uidahocaa" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(228, 162, 27) !important;">University of Idaho, College of Art & Architecture on Facebook</a></li><li style="background-image: url(http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/standalone/article-arrow-gray.png); padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px; float: none; display: block; background-position: 0px 8px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/uidahocaa" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(228, 162, 27) !important;"></a><a href="http://www.latahcountyhistoricalsociety.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(228, 162, 27) !important; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Latah County Historical Society</a>, Moscow, Idaho</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photos</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_1.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_1.jpg</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_2.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_2.jpg</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_3.jpg">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Photos/CBSSundayMorning_112314_RogerRowley_3.jpg</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/fruit-works-of-art/">http://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/fruit-works-of-art/</a></p></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></body></html>