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and character, their Robert Yarber with one of the Instruments of a New lives so resolved — so Navigation, part of the 2000 Graves exhibit “Beauty: all-of-a-piece — and Seeing Then, Seeing Now, Seeing Beyond” at the Morris the forest is so deep Graves Museum of Art. photo by Bob Doran and in places almost impenetrable that many of these great trees have never been Graves enlisted Seattle architect Ibsen seen by man. This gives them some deep Nelson to design and build a proper house quietude of their own, and although you for The Lake. It wasn’t easy going. As may think I’m waxing a bit emotional in Nelson wrote to Graves’ art dealer Marian this letter, I lean with my arms outWillard, stretched against these great trees when I discover them and my heart floods The first thing that we discovered with tears of love for them. I am far from when we set out to build the building what’s called a “naturalist” (or what’s was that the foundation conditions next called a “bird-watcher”), but I’m not far to the lake shore were not what we had from what’s called a “solitary.” I love to anticipated, in spite of some considerbe alone in nature where no one has ever able soil investigation. At that time I been and where there’s not a chance that told Morris, “You have two choices, someone is going to be. Morris. You can move the house back up onto solid ground farther away from the lake, or we can bring in a pile driving machine and design a complicated pilesupported system of reinforced concrete structural supports to carry the house over the boggy terrain.” … Morris said we absolutely cannot move the house. You know him well enough that you can probably hear him say so. We had stood there with the roof overhang mocked up on the site and Morris understood the building had to have this special relationship to the lake and it could be no other way. … Picture if you can that wonderful Morris striding around like a giant crane, his dreamy but perceptive eyes missing not a thing, watching every detail of the construction as it progressed. I came down each weekend to review the progress, to solve all of the new problems that had come up, and to discuss each and every aspect of the
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