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David
Eubank Is an
Artist Living and working in Northwestern Montana Read more
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Artist
Statement: Living
and working in Montana has many challenges and rewards for me as an artist.
The natural beauty of Montana is unmatched by any attempt to reproduce
it’s majestic and scenic beauty by any tool an artist like myself might use.
The best I can hope for is a work of art that reflects my feelings about the
landscape. I spend a great deal of my time living and working in the
wilderness for the National Park Service in Glacier National Park and as an
artist this helps me to understand the quietness of this place and places
like it-- places where cell phones don’t work and where you can think and
breathe. Today the isolation of the wilderness that has been Montana has been
broken by modern communications, cell phones and the internet; the great
distances to the major cities are now just a mouse click away on the
information highway. Yet the very environment, the natural environment that
attracted me and so many visitors to the region is under a relentless attack
by unplanned as well as by poorly planned development, which threatens to
destroy Montana’s uniqueness and beauty. The qualities that attracted so many
of us to this place and places like it are being replaced by the development
of new Box Cities paved with endless parking lots throughout Montana and
America. Development that we have come to believe we need and miss so much
that we want it here-- here in Montana. The very place we came to escape the
sameness that has overtaken the landscape across an America of endless
McDonalds, Strip Malls and Big Box Stores has grown into new cities and towns
not built to live and walk in, but to drive to. Perhaps this has
happened in another way? Developers brought development and products here and
we were all told we needed them and we believed the developers and the
corporate retailers and sought to have the need for these products. This is
in stark contrast to having true needs and then developing products and
services to fill our true desires and needs. Two questions I would ask
you: Does the new development in Montana and across America fill your needs
and can we develop what we want, what we need in a more thoughtful way that
will preserve the very qualities of the land we love? Will we miss the sky as
much as we missed the city? Escape into the landscape, find a quiet
place where cell phones don’t work and think on this for awhile and don’t
forget to breathe. Maybe
we will meet on the trail. David
Lee Eubank |