||| FROM BETHANY MARIE for ORCAS CENTER |||
Orcas Center’s Visual Arts Committee (VAC) is excited to present the next Art Opening, Friday, August 23 from 5:30pm – 7pm with featured artist, Julia Summers in the lobby, and a community show of Abstract Art in the Madrona Room.
Julia Summers started her life as a photographer at the age of eight. She was bullied in school for wearing a patch and seeing with one eye. Her art teacher gave her an old Yashica camera inviting her to capture the world as she saw it. Julia loved exploring photography – it was something that she could do with one eye, and excel at.
This gift has carried her for sixty-two years and a career as a documentary photographer. Julia’s photos have been seen in Ranger Rick and the International Wildlife Federation along with her contract work for National Geographic.
As the vision challenge progressed, Julia began to create images of the world closer to home and began looking into the beauty of nature’s patterns – a world of intricate images that we normally would not see. Her fascination with the abstract designs a flower presents has been carrying her since and will display a series of images showing the Fibonacci Sequence – a sequence in which each number is the sum of the two preceding ones – as found in nature.
Staying true to her passion, Julia creates her art within the camera itself, and takes pride in not altering her images, noting, “The most important thing I learned in school is that my images are either good or they’re not.” She prefers to spend her time exploring the world to find images, not sitting in her studio editing software. “I find great joy when someone looks at one of my images and can feel the moment I was trying to capture.”
Join us for refreshments, piano entertainment provided by Ron Myers, and a fabulous display of art by local islanders this Friday, August 23 starting at 5:30pm. This show will be on display through September 24. For more information visit www.OrcasCenter.org/VAC or email vac@OrcasCenter.org.
