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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 20, 2015
Local artist donates talent to food pantry
Mural represents
collective spirit
and mission of
organization
By KATHERINE LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — Local paint-
er Billy Lutz approaches each
work as a storybook.
From a single starting
thought or concept, his pieces
move through multiple layers of
context to narrate a nuanced sto-
ry to be read by the viewer.
Born in Michigan in 1951,
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when he was 14. Over the years,
his work became focused on
what lies beneath the surface
and themes, such as the environ-
ment and materialism, spiritual
realities versus religious dogma,
collectivism versus individu-
alism and other dualities and
paradoxes. His style is narrative
painting that represents his com-
plex philosophies.
“Painting seems to be the
way I pursue my thinking,” he
said.
One of Lutz’s latest works
adorns the entryway of the re-
cently completed South Coun-
ty Community Food Bank on
North Roosevelt Drive.
Absorbing an area on the
wall several feet tall and wide,
the acrylic painting depicts a
fruit tree laden with apples and
bright leaves and bearing a thick
trunk leading down to deep
roots.
Mary Blake, a member of
the food bank’s board, said the
organization wanted an image
of a tree because it’s “symbolic
of the cycle of life” and the pan-
try’s mission.
“Food reaches everybody —
so the tree really was for that,”
she said.
To further reinforce the con-
cept of natural harmony through
connective movement, Lutz em-
bellished the tree with his sig-
nature force rings, or geometric
arcs suggestive of “all that exists
that is unseen.”
Lutz earned an associate of
arts degree from Northwestern
Michigan College in 1972, but
while college helped him loosen
up and experiment with art, life
experiences mostly have moti-
vated the philosophical concepts
embedded in his work.
From an early age, Lutz was
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deep mysteries of which he was
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tree at the South County Community Food Bank. The tree,
bearing lush leaves, fruit and deep roots, and embellished
with Lutz’s signature force rings, is symbolic of the cycle
of life and the interconnectedness of community.
into something more complex,”
he said.
He tries to keep his paintings
in the present tense, because
as soon as an experience has
passed there exists the poten-
tial to remember or analyze it
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interconnectedness of community.
happens to me,” said Lutz.
That philosophy is evident in
a part. He traverses these mys- is a hereditary degenerative eyesight remaining, Lutz has de- his life. Because of this sense of
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lieves the concepts and ideas he mentosa that started at age 47 continue painting large works. the edge, Lutz has traveled often
encounters through his artwork and has slowly impaired his He draws a smaller representa- and lived in multiple states as
are not unique but rather univer- vision. Instead of being con- tion and then an assistant will new goals presented themselves
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He has supported himself
make religious parables and reconciled himself to his con- wall in the food pantry. From through freelance sign work, but
ancient mythologies relevant to dition and re-emerged slightly there, Lutz can focus on one he keeps his art separate and not
the modern world. For instance, altered but with a new per- small section of the painting at the means to his and his family’s
in his series “The Beast,” Lutz spective and more established a time. As he’s painting, he said, livelihoods. He prefers to donate
follows the classical myth of the priorities.
he often will take photos of the his talent and produce his work
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“The myth states that you work in progress or view it in a for public consumption.
be consumed or defeated by it.
do have to accommodate your mirror. The strategy allows him
“I tried to keep money out
While humans are naturally beasts, your demons. They’re to see the full work, although of it for philosophical reasons,”
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ly overcome their demons, peo- overcome your demons you ted down in his notebook. As the acquisition of wealth, while
ple instead must learn to accept have to embrace them. So it’s he’s working, he’ll develop that being shackled to the idea that
them.
not something I invented, but I thought or allow it to work its people’s worth is determined
Lutz related the series to happened to tap into it.”
way forward.
by material possessions. In a
one of his own “beasts,” which
With only 15 percent of his
“The original idea blossoms system of unfettered capitalism,
he said, things only are valuable
when they are dead, which has
led to disregard for the environ-
ment and the human spirit.
One of Lutz’s key philoso-
phies is the paradox that people
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pose when they are giving to
a collective unit, whether it be
family, community, a loved one
or any other person.
“There are self-evident facts
that you’re hooked to the col-
lective whole and you can only
realize that by being a true indi-
vidual,” he said. “That’s where
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is your devotion outward, not
inward. ... Everything expands.
Life expands.”
The food pantry is an ex-
ample of collectivism through
which individual purpose can
be found, Lutz believes. A lot
of people donated their time,
money and services to the orga-
nization and continue to do so.
That pouring out does not deny
each individual person, he said,
“it gives them worth.”
To view more of Lutz’s
work, visit www.billylutz.com/
contact.html or T.anjuli Salon
& Gallery, at 7 North Holladay
Drive,
The pantry also has a new
website, available at www.
southcountyfood.com/.
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