/tags/closeup/ Recent content in closeup on Rootstalk Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us /past-issues/volume-ii-issue-1/scanbridge/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-ii-issue-1/scanbridge/ console.log("Debugging in figure_azure.html. PID: triptych.png"); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. width: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. height: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. maxwidth: 200'); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. alt: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. caption: Triptych, Acrylic, 2015'); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. caption_position: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. title: '); console.log('Debugging in figure_azure.html. link: '); Triptych, Acrylic, 2015 Her composition “was a reflection piece as I looked out on the abundance of the fields surrounding my rural Iowa home. /past-issues/volume-ii-issue-1/wolf/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-ii-issue-1/wolf/ Robert Wolf is a keen observer of the American scene. For over four decades he has traveled America’s back roads and backwaters, searching for iconic American figures and regional folkways. This led him to establish Free River Press, a nonprofit, in 1990, with the mission of documenting contemporary American life through writing workshops that he conducted with workingmen and women across the country. Since that foundation, the press has published 26 titles, and in 1991 Oxford University Press published a collection of Free River Press writings, An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk. /past-issues/volume-iii-issue-1/saunders/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-iii-issue-1/saunders/ Though Ken Saunders numbers hiking and nature study among his primary interests, nature photography is his passion. Photography, in his mind, dovetails with all his other interests. Saunders got his first camera, a Kodak 104 Instamatic, when he was around seven years old. This camera used a 126 film cartridge and featured a connector for the new (at the time) flashcube. The 104 retailed for $15.95 when launched in 1963. Kodak sold 60 million of the various models of “Instamatic” cameras in the 1960s and 1970s. /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/bower/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/bower/ Art is the one thing that mystifies me the most; it takes me to a place inside of myself where anything is possible. I am bringing the unseen and the intangible into form—all artists are. The imagination is a portal that is endless and we all have access to this inner realm where the unconscious can be tapped. I chose blacksmithing and steel sculpture as my primary medium because it’s tangible. /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/kouchi/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /past-issues/volume-vii-issue-2/kouchi/ In March 2019, devastating floods hit the Missouri River floodplain and lasted for almost an entire year. Corey McIntosh and his wife, Tina Popson, who farm along the Missouri in western Iowa, were displaced by the flooding and had to leave their family farm to seek shelter. Mr. McIntosh’s great-grandparents purchased that land in the early 1940s, and the family has been farming it ever since. Since long before the ‘40s, flooding has been a part of the history of the Missouri, but in recent years flooding has become more frequent and stronger.