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Starving Artist Entry - My coat hook, Pisgah, NC

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One "Starving Artist" entry here, a

PHOTOGRAPH AND WRITING:

My  coat hook, Pisgah Forest, North Carolina

(If it must be entered into only one category, then I would enter it into Photography. But I choose to enter it into a category called, "Photography and Writing").

Even after seeing fifteen states from a tourist's point of view, this image from the Pisgah forest is one that will last a lifetime. I took this with a $12.00 plastic "sports" camera. (Takes four pictures with one press of the shutter button). On "solo" night in the forest, I learned that the forest is a most peaceful, natural, learning, growing place. In my collection of photographs, I have historical, one-of-a-kind photographs, art and writing. Been to the White House, been to Inaugurations, seen celebrities from "A to Z", but this photograph is the one that follows me everywhere. It is a most haunting photograph, because it reminds me of the day that I truly discovered what a forest is really like. One can see a forest in a magazine or on television and imagine what it is like, but no one really knows, until they enter inside of this mystery called, "The Forest" .

Starving artist entry here. Though I have done over sixty-five public art/writing exhibits in New York City, I do not sell my work. My photography, collage, writing is free for everyone to view, read and enjoy.

This faded image of the forest and my coat hook (Look close and you will see my jacket), is like the faded but everlasting image in my mind of that one week in the forest, in the wilderness.

If you ever want to really experience and live in your most present moment, walk into the forest and you will be right there.

Other wilderness students who were there that trip saw a tree fall, just fall. It's life was over, and it just fell. We heard it from the distance and had no idea what that sound was. After all, we had hiked to the middle of nowhere and then hiked another few miles from there too. What could that sound have been?

Yes, when a tree falls in the forest, you do hear it. And, some even see it.

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tree, forest, alumni, starving artist