Title: Window Vines, Boston // Artist: Christopher Woods
about the piece
| This photograph was taken while on an art tour of New England with my wife Linda. But maybe more important is the reason behind this and other photographs from that trip. I have always been interested in visual art. In fact, years ago my wife and I owned a small art gallery. But I have always been a writer, and I wondered if personally entering the visual arts might hamper the writing. Wasn’t writing vice enough for one person? Then, several things happened to change my attitude. For one thing, my wife and I bought an old tiny farmhouse in the Texas countryside. This transformed our lives. I had always lived in a city, so the new setting, both the beauty and harshness of nature, made an enormous impression on me. Not long after that, I was diagnosed with cancer. While in chemotherapy, my wife gave me one of her old cameras. She is a fine equestrian photographer. I began taking photographs in earnest. My cancer was eventually cured, and I kept taking photographs. The photograph of the window in Boston was from a celebratory trip. It reminds me that when people say art is life, I know exactly what they mean. |
about the author // Christopher Woods
| Christopher Woods (he/him) is a writer and photographer who lives in Texas. His monologue show, Twelve from Texas, was performed recently in NYC by Equity Library Theatre. His poetry collection, Maybe Birds Would Carry It Away, is published by Kelsay Books. |
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