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Volume 38, Issue 17
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A 16th century painting by Pieter Brueghel. Gray divided the painting
into small squares, which she printed out and gave to her poetry stu­
dents, who only saw their square, and did not know the full picture.
The students then wrote poems based on what they saw.
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do it.
Gray’s presentation was a
project done by her poetry stu­
dents, with help from some art
and computer science students.
Taking a 16th century paint­
ing by Pieter Brueghel, Gray
divided it up into small squares.
She printed these squares off
and handed one to each of her
beginning poetry students. The
students didn’t know the pieces
they had were part of a larger
painting.
“I [told them to] have a piece
of this and write a poem and
bless their hearts, they did,” said
Gray.
“[The result] was a pattern
of low, or mid-frequency, vow­
els [throughout the poems]. The
consonants were mostly melodic
and soft,” Gray said. “What that
showed me was that the tone
of the paint came through the
poems.”
“This is a literary theory
called intertextuality.
That
means,” explained Gray, “that
whenever we respond to some­
thing, it influences us. So in a
sense, the [poetry students] were
painted.”
Gray then took a poem writ­
ten by William Carlos Williams
about that same painting and cut
it up line by line. She went to
one of the college’s art instruc­
tors, David Anderson and asked
if he could have his students
paint what they saw in the lines
of Williams’ poem.
For the poets the tone of the
paint affected their poetry. For
the painters the poem affect­
ed their paintings. Most of the
poems were about death, but
nearly all the paintings were full
of life and bright colors.
“This was all very weird,”
said Gray. “I asked the computer
science folks if there was any­
way to do this digitally.” And
they did that, too, by putting
the painting on a computer and
then making it so that whenever
a portion of the painting was
clicked on, the respective poem
popped up.
“Sometimes an artist feels
that he or she is removed from
the world,” said Gray. “What
this [whole thing] showed was
that you can never be removed
from the world. We’re always
being colored and painted.”
ags at half-staff not Just CC Cultural Coalition
ir personal rememberance awards Estacada quilt
—
determines the period of time in the
presidential order and it applies to all
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federal government offices and instal­
lations, and any other entity that flies
ith a war going on and the American flag, including private
many American citizens citizens.
feeling as patriotic as
State governors can also order U.S.
ever, many questions arise as
flags
to and
how state flags to half-staff for all
to fly the American flag and when to state government offices and instal­
lower to half-staff to honor war dead lations, including schools and public
and other dignitaries who pass on.
colleges and universities, to honor
According to USFlag.org, a web­ important people who have passed
site dedicated to the flag of the United on. In Oregon recently, Governor
States, “The Flag Code,” which is Kulongoski has ordered flags to half­
a written guideline to formalize and staff to honor all Operation Enduring
unify the traditional ways in which Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom
Americans give respect to the flag, military personnel who have been
has a set of rules on how to display the killed in action. These orders have
flag, the standards of respect, display­ generally lasted from one to three
ing the flag indoors and outdoors, rais- days.
ing/lowering die flag, parading/salut-
When a flag is ordered flown at
ing the flag and the flag in mourning. half-staff, the flag must be raised all
Also included are a set of instructions the way to the top of the pole, then
on cleaning/repairing the flag andhow lowered to the halfway point of the
to formally retire the flag.
pole. When the flag is lowered, the
The biggest controversy nowa­ flag must first be raised to the top of
days is who determines when the the pole, then lowered all the way to
flag is lowered to half-staff, a way of the bottom. The flag should only be
honoring those people important to flown between sunrise and sunset,
the United States. The flag can only unless the flag is illuminated at night
be lowered to half-staff upon orders
The only day in which a presi­
from the president of the United States dential or gubernatorial order is not
or the governor of a particular state. needed to fly the flag at half-staff is
For example, President Bush recently Memorial Day, in which the flag is
ordered flags around the nation to displayed at half-staff from sunrise
half-staff in honor of the passing of until noon, then raised to full-staff
Pope John Paul II. The president from noon until sunset.
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flag at half-staff
that is only
an order from
officer of the
States (the president)
certain state (the
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Monday night, the Clackamas County Cultural Coalition pre­
sented the Estacada Skip-a-Week Quilt-Makers with a certifi­
cate and $1,000 for their outstanding cultural commitment to
the community.
Art Department's Lunch and a Movie
OREGON CITY - Bring a lunch and catch a movie about the
art world during a Spring Term film series offered by teh CCC
Art Department. The “Lunch and a Movie” series will take place
Wed., April 20, May 4 and 25 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in AC 108.
- Press release