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Wednesday, August 24, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
ART SHoW: Artists
reception set for
Friday, August 26
EAToN: Athlete is
driven by pursuit
of a goal
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“It was communication
across species, really,” she
said.
Lustig contributed a piece
featuring a wolf in mixed
media on clayboard.
Wolves caught the atten-
tion of mixed-media art-
ist Mary Medrano, as well.
Reintroduction has been
much in the news recently,
with wolves making their
presence felt in Oregon.
“I did this body of work
— wolves — specifically for
this show,” Medrano told The
Nugget.
Medrano works with
acrylics, paper, and some ink.
“This is what I’ve been
doing for a few years now,”
she said. “I paint people, too.”
“I’d like to spend some
time traveling,” Eaton says,
“seeing organizations and get-
ting a sense of what I want to
do, and seeing how the world
works.”
One of his idols is Tesla
co-founder Elon Musk,
whose spirit of ingenuity has
inspired the decathlete. Eaton
says Musk has an uncanny
ability to look at something
that other people would dis-
miss as impossible and figure
out a way to make it work.
“I just like the way he
thinks in the sense that his
impact is from a foundation
of not listening or accept-
ing things the way they are,”
Eaton explains. “It’s some-
thing a lot of people don’t
want to do because it’s hard
work.”
So, what does Eaton fancy
trying? What is something
that has too long been defined
The world’s pretty
brutal right now… so I
was just trying to paint
something really happy
that would cheer me up.”
— kimry Jelen
Kimry Jelen is best known
for painting horses, but she’s
also a “dog person” and she
contributed a pup to the Fur
& Feathers show. And a frog.
photo proviDeD
Mary Medrano’s “Cuidado” is featured in the fur & feather Show.
A frog kept showing up,
perching on the edges of her
canvases, so she decided to
immortalize him, though she
did take some artistic license
and calls her subject a “made-
up frog.”
“He was having the
best siesta in the sun,” she
recalled. “It was one of those
moments that make you so
relaxed, looking at a relaxed
animal. The world’s pretty
brutal right now … so I was
just trying to paint something
really happy that would cheer
me up.”
Jelen said she appreciates
working in a community of
talented artists, where every-
body seems to be “always
giving back or doing good.
It’s a cool place to live.”
Kathy Deggendorfer,
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Barbara Modey, and Kit
Stafford will also have work
in the show.
Sisters Art Works is
located at 242 W. Adams Ave.
Individuals can also make
a donation to Furry Friends
or purchase raffle tickets
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by the status quo, and that
could use a fresh set of ideas
to push it forward?
It turns out the answer is
big. Bigger even than electric
cars.
“I thought it’d be cool to
start my own university, in a
way,” says Eaton, an Oregon
graduate. “Universities are
like a utopia in a way, because
you’re mentally stimulated,
you’re challenged, and you
have a lot of young, creative
minds wanting to do new
things, different things. Better
things.
“But I don’t think the
current university systems
are set up to allow people to
meet their potential,” he says.
“You just kind of go through
the meat-grinder. You’re in a
class with 300 people, doing
rote regurgitation of informa-
tion. It would be cool to do
something different.”
Eaton hasn’t fully fleshed
out this idea, of course. He’s
been a little busy becoming
The World’s Greatest Athlete.
He is driven more by the pur-
suit of a goal than the baubles
that come with achieving it.