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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Commentary... The Widening Gyre By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the cen- tre cannot hold& 4 William Butler Yeats A month ago, COVID-19 was a dark cloud on the hori- zon, a low muttering of thun- der, an ill wind. With disori- enting speed, we have been plunged into a raging tem- pest, our sails tattered, our rigging shredded in a howl- ing wind, the rudder jammed. The world can change pro- foundly in sudden moments, turning on seemingly random contingencies. Chaos theory in operation. In Wuhan, China, a virus jumps from animal to human 4 and within months, thou- sands are dead and the world has plunged into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. A u s t r i a 9s H a p s b u r g Archduke Franz Ferdinand is shot on the streets of Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. By August, the nations of Europe have tumbled seemingly without volition into a cataclysm of war that will remake the world. Neither event was inevi- table, yet the march of catas- trophe was inexorable. I am fascinated by such pivotal moments. On Sunday evening, I watched a BBC documentary on Amazon Prime titled <Charles I: Downfall of a King.= It traces a period of 50 days from November 1641 to January 1642 when Charles Stuart of England fell from the pin- nacle of divinely ordained monarchy to becoming a refugee in his own land. His fall inaugurated nine years of brutal civil war, a conflict that would cost Charles I his realm 4 and his head. It is a fascinating account of a clash between a thin- skinned monarch, jealous of his prerogatives, and a parlia- mentary faction of religious zealots and political radicals. The 50 days of confronta- tion between Charles and his Parliament is a litany of missed opportunities, mis- judgments and miscalcula- tions (mostly on Charles9 part) wherein previously unthinkable measures sud- denly and inexorably came to pass. I imagine that Englishmen in January 1642 had a hard time remembering November 1641, just as it9s hard now to cast ourselves back to February. As historian Lisa Hilton muses at the conclusion of the three-part doco, the 50 days of Charles9 downfall may well be the most impor- tant days in the political his- tory of the Western world. The fall of the Stuart mon- archy, though it was briefly restored, destroyed the cred- ibility of the Divine Right of Kings and threw open the Overton Window 4 expand- ing in an instant what was possible in the world. Because of those 50 days, Americans a century and more on could conceive of cutting ties with their king, and the French could readily conceive of dropping their king9s head into a wicker basket. The template set in France would be traced in even greater gouts of blood in Russia and so on... It remains to be seen what the world historical consequences of our present moment will be 4 but they are certain to be profound. And we will look back on a period of weeks in early 2020 as the hinge of fate. CHECK OUT THIS WEEK’S NUGGET INSERT! Ray’s Food Place MOTH: Event is major fundraiser for Sisters Folk Festival Continued from page 13 her inspiration for this year9s theme. Druian noted, <From my house on a cliff above the Deschutes I see a vast pan- orama of Central Oregon 4 all the way from the Cascades and Smith Rock. I will go to Smith Rock and photograph it at dawn and in the eve- ning. While I am sometimes a plein air painter, the golden hour 4 dawn and dusk 4 are fleeting so I work from photos for these subjects.= The enthusiasm Druian has for painting began when she was in preschool. <I remember getting in trouble because of painting on my bedroom wall at three or four,= she explained. After high school she studied at San Francisco State and UC Berkeley and graduated with a degree in psych social welfare. But the pull of art was strong. After moving to Eugene, she enrolled in the University of Oregon and received a mas- ter9s in art education. Later on, Druian joined Plein Air Painters of Oregon. <I am primarily a land- scape painter, although in graduate school I was a figu- rative painter,= said Druian. <And, for lack of a better term, a post-impressionist, or a studio artist who relies on plein air for preliminary sketches and knowledge of atmospheric influence.= Druian traces her inspi- ration from a book of paint- ings by the master of Western landscape painting from the early 1900s, Maynard Dixon. She added, <My local inspirations are Susan Lucky Higdon who runs Tumalo Art Co. in Bend and Harmony Thomas who has given my work a 8permanent9 home in Good Day Café (adja- cent to Bedouin), as she has taken on the complexities of sequestering to bring all local artists together as an online community.= View more of her artwork at www.druianstudios.com. PHOTO PROVIDED “Dawn’s Early Light” by Janice Druian of Terrebonne. Open for curbside pick-up or takeout and limited home delivery! 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