Posts by Dan Cautrell
Spiral, Out on the Highway.
Because of the location of this piece, on Hwy 203, with traffic speeds up to 60 mph I needed to make it simple and easy to “read” at speed. The…
Read More“Art coming from the forest”…
While I was installing the Forest piece my studio landlord and her grand daughter happened to notice me and stopped by to see what I was doing. They often see…
Read MoreMeadow, The Trees Are Alive.
This was an experimental installation on a grove of trees along the edge of McCormick Park in Duvall. The trees sustained broken branches in the storm and needed to be…
Read MoreNow A Word About 4Culture
When I got the grant from Artist Trust I felt encouraged to try for a grant from 4Culture. They had a “Special Projects” grant available for artists who had a…
Read MoreForest, For The Trees.
This is an installation that sits at the edge of an area where the trees were all cleared away to increase visibility at the intersection of a new road near…
Read MoreThe Mystery Of The Flora Series
The Flora Series represents the three times that I have had to redo the same installation site due to someone “acquiring” the art. It has become a test of wills…
Read MoreThe Story of the Sun Flower and the Lotus
In winter of 2007 we had more trees go down. On particular tree fell across Ring Hill Road near my studio. After they cut back the tree and reopened the…
Read MoreStag, Big and Bold
This was the largest piece that I had done for the project so far and it was more detailed than the previous works. At this point I wanted to become…
Read MoreArtist Trust: Trusting Artists since 1987
Artist Trust is one of the most amazing art organizations in the world. If you are an artist in the state of Washington and have a project you want to…
Read MoreCrystal, Obscure treasure
After Cycles was removed I found another small site to do a follow up installation in my neighborhood. I made a mistake in the staining and it doesn't have the…
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