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Provenance
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Three years ago when
Spire Artworks began it's saga with the internet and went online
as spireartworks.com, I was so green I thought "About the
Artist" pages were a good place to put details about
my products. With the birth of our new site, Ab-originals by
kate, I've let myself be convinced that people need to know
something about the origins of the art and the
artists, that background lends authenticity to the work, and that
prospective owners of 1-of-a-kind art have a real right to know
how it came about and where it's from. It should be a
part of the signature.
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In struggling to find a way
to write this I finally saw I needed to step outside of myself to see
the whole.
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When I did, it
became clear that what the artist was about, what made me
be able to produce the art I now pursue, with it's depth and
complexity - included our whole life style, most
important of which is my partner/husband John.
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"enjoying
a coconut from Hawaii"
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Too, it put into
clear focus a long-held dream: for him to get his own artistry
on the front burner. Future pages in the site will offer his
knives, drums, flintknaped works, woodwork, and hopefully
carvings.
So
here we are; this is about us.
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Kate and John Reeve live a simple
farmstead lifestyle in the rural Northwest. The setting, south east
Washington State in the agricultural county of Walla Walla, is shared
with their two dogs, their two cats, and a revolving population of
geese, chickens, pigs, goats, & sheep. Frequent visitors include
great blue herons, coyote, mule & white-tail deer, various owls big
and small, and sundry raptors (even the occasional Bald Eagle).
Seasonally there are Canadian geese, flickers, magpies, meadowlarks, and
a large diversity of smaller birds. And, of course, the ever present
ground chucks and pocket gophers.
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"from
the Lewis & Clark trail, looking at the Blue
Mts."
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Nearby forests allow the
ambitious to glean an unending supply of found objects from
antler "sheds", barks, branches, yew wood, ocean
spray, stones, feathers, bones bleached by nature, and more.
Trading with local hunter gatherers is an ongoing endeavor.
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Their farmstead itself
provides the by-product harvest of molted feathers from various
fowl, including "Legal Eagle" (hand painted goose). As
needed, hair cuts can be given in order to acquire roving or
hair. John's woodlot may turn up an extra gorgeous piece of wood
that leads to a hand carved curtain rod ornament, or a whittled
bear claw, or some lodge poles that just have to become a
lean-to. Butchering, at which time nothing is wasted, provides
hides, bones, skulls, dew-claws, and teeth for use in wall art,
knife making, etc.
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Pumpkin
(up front) Starbord & Sheport (geese)
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"that's it for now;
it's becoming a newsletter. We'll add (and subtract) to it as we go
along..."
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