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.
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Ray’s
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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.
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