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COURTESY OF THE ARTIST
Clarity (oil on birch panel, 36x36) by Barbara Fisher
There have been casualties. The gleaming teak is scored where someone carelessly dragged away a paper plate of stale birthday cake, its plumage of frosting fossilized, its crumbs a spray of tiny shards. The oriental went to Craigslist, and one late evening on a loading dock we bought an acrylic stain resistant carpet we’re pretty sure was hot. But food is plentiful, upholstery expendable, and every plan is frangible. Boys playing hide-and-seek secret themselves behind the undrawn curtains that hang on either side of smudged dining room windows. They stand open now. Dust and honeysuckle blow through.
New York native BARBARA FISHER now lives in Asheville, NC. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows throughout the country, including the de Saisset Museum and the Bank of America World Headquarters in California, the National Institutes of Health in Maryland, and the Washington (DC) Cancer Center, and in group shows at such venues as the Asheville Art Museum, the Alexandria (LA) Museum of Art, the Sun City (AZ) Museum of Art, and the Chicago Cultural Center. See more of her work on her website.