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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Forty-Nine: Creating an echo with rhythm and pattern > Life imitates art, Gilbert, Arizona, 2013
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26-MAR-2013

Life imitates art, Gilbert, Arizona, 2013

On the way home from my visit to the Superstition Mountains, we stopped for dinner at a restaurant in Gilbert. While waiting our turn for service, I had plenty of time to study an agricultural mural that covered a wall lined with booths. I noticed that small tin pots were placed at the spots where the booth seats met the wall mural. Each pot held a small floral display. I moved in on one of the pots to reveal detail in the floral arrangement, and at the same time, crop the mural so that part of an irrigation canal, as well a pipe leading out of it, created an arching frame for part of the wheat field itself. The blue water in the canal offers a perfect match for the blue pipe that carries the water into the fields. Meanwhile, the rhythms of the floral display repeat the curving rhythms within the large sprays of wheat at the bottom of the mural, while the booth itself, as well as the elements within the mural, repeat this diagonal geometric pattern throughout the image.

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