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Creativity Community FEBRUARY IS THE MONTH THAT BEND LIFESTYLE CELEBRATES THE CREATIVITY IN OUR COMMUNITY. In this issue we introduce you to talented individuals who create art in the form of painting, photography, film and home design.

Turn the pages to walk in step with photographer Steve Giardini as he snowshoes in the early morning hours to capture the perfect shot of a winter scene at Todd Lake.

Take in the beauty of Valerie Winterholler’s contemporary paintings that evoke the

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wonder of our natural landscapes. Get to know Emily and Nathan Woodworth of Sisters, a brother-sister duo creating films amidst the challenges of a pandemic.

Be inspired by the home design of Rick Wright, who recently created an extraordinary luxury barn apartment that fits with the Central Oregon ranch lifestyle. We’ve also profiled Julie Poulin, who used her creative energy to found Bend Gives, an organization that helps meet the needs of our community by partnering with other nonprofits working with children in Central Oregon. Let’s not forget February’s holidays! For Valentine’s Day this year, get creative in the kitchen with our recipe for Chocolate Lava Cake as a decadent dessert.

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FEATURES 10 Creative Home Design Rick Wright Designs a Luxury Barn Apartment to Respect the Ranch Lifestyle

18 Photographer’s Notebook Steve J. Giardini Walks Through the Process of Capturing a Winter Scene at Todd Lake

24 Contemporary Art Valerie Winterholler’s Language of Expression

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34 Valentine's Day Dessert Recipe for Molten Chocolate Cake with Berries for a Sweet Holiday

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OPEN HOUSE

ARTICLE SARAH LAKEN | PHOTOGRAPHY RICK HAYES

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RICK WRIGHT DESIGNS A LUXURY BARN APARTMENT WHILE RESPECTING THE RANCH LIFESTYLE

TAKING A CREATIVE HOME IDEA AND MAKING IT A REALITY, NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL. That is Rick Wright’s trademark as an award-winning, sustainable home designer, and owner of Wright Design Studio in Bend. Wright has been designing homes since 1980 and one of his most noteworthy creative projects combines the rural lifestyle of Central Oregon and small home living on a luxury scale.

In 2016, Wright’s clients wanted to build a barn that would include a small living area and a place for horses. The couple had spent many years vacationing in Bend from Portland and wanted to start making the transition to living on this side of the Cascades near Tumalo CONTINUED >

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on 20 acres of picturesque ranchland. As always, Wright takes notes of the natural landscapes he’s working within. He has an eye not only as a home designer, but as an outdoor enthusiast and past president of the Deschutes Watershed Council. In this case, the surrounding mountain views and agricultural lands were commanding, the perfect place for this barn project.

Wright got to work designing the barn, resulting in a 900-square-foot, perfectly spacious and cozy dwelling with one bedroom, one bathroom, open ceilings, exposed wood beams, a beautiful full kitchen, a stone fireplace, numerous large windows for natural light, and a large deck overlooking the property. The space cleverly uses the apartment’s fullest potential. The downstairs barn features 2,100-square-feet with four horse stalls, a tack room for equestrian gear, a washroom, a storage area, another bathroom, and an office. Wright worked with builder Rick Hayes of Visionary Homes to bring the concept to life.

“The view to the mountains influences the openness of the upstairs apartment,” says Wright. “It brings the outside into the esthetic of the inside.” This multiphase project started with the barn apartment and a home for horses and will eventually lead to a permanent home and a future shop to come with a matching exterior to the barn. Once all of the structures are finished, this project will show how

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a little bit of dreaming and a lot of planning are

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FIVE THINGS TO ALWAYS DO IN THE WINTER For many, winter is truly the most wonderful time of the year. Central Oregon is host to a variety of winter activities only minutes away. However, in the clinic, winter brings an increased volume of patients who have experienced an injury.

Keeping your body safe while enjoying winter in Central Oregon starts with knowing how to appropriately manage the different situations that Jack Frost throws your way. Bend physical therapist, Siiri Berg, shares five tips for keeping your winter injury-free.

1. Shovel correctly. Yeah, it’s a chore, but shoveling snow is also a great cardiovascular workout. The trick is to avoid letting it build up. Clearing small amounts of snow is much easier than trying to lift or push eight inches at a time. If possible, shovel several times during the day to avoid a big pile up.

Use proper shoveling technique by pushing the snow instead of scooping it. Siiri likes to clear a path down the center of the driveway that is two shovel widths wide. She then makes a chevron pattern by pushing snow diagonally toward each side of the driveway.

This keeps the loads lighter and easier to manage.

Be sure to shovel from both your right and left sides to avoid over-fatiguing one set of muscles. You may be a little clumsy using your non-dominate hand, but your body will thank you in the end.

2. Warm-up before you play. Few people take the time to warm up before hitting the slopes or trails properly. We excitedly get in our cars and drive up to the mountains. Once we arrive, we quickly don the appropriate gear and head out. It is tough to do an adequate dynamic warm-up when it is freezing outside, your stoked to hit the trails, and you’re wearing bulky ski boots. You probably notice, however, that you are a little stiffer on your first few runs. That’s because your muscles haven’t had the chance to warm up. Siiri recommends parking your car a little further away from the lift or trails, so you

have a greater distance to walk. Walking can be a great dynamic warm-up. She also recommends starting with a few easy runs to wake up your body and loosen your muscles.

3. Stay hydrated. When it is cold outside, it can be harder to recognize when you are thirsty because you aren’t sweating like in the summer months. With the lodges closed, you need to pack an adequate amount of water to stay hydrated. Consider wearing a backpack and carrying a thermos of water or warm tea to sip throughout the day. A low sugar electrolyte drink is also a great option to tote.

4. Minimize the slip. Falls are most common in the winter months due to ice on walking surfaces. Shoe traction devices are a worthwhile investment to help you trek safely. Siiri recommends purchasing two pairs, one to keep in the car and the other in the garage. This ensures you are prepared for icy conditions whenever they appear.

5. Find your balance. Traction devices are one way to help keep you on your feet this winter, but it is even more essential to find your balance. Good balance allows you to recover from a slip so you don’t land on your bottom. Siiri suggests practicing balance at home when brushing your teeth as it challenges your balance. She suggests standing with your feet together or one slightly in front of the other while brushing. Want a little more challenge? Try closing your eyes to test your balance. Another suggestion is to practice standing on one foot in a safe place, such as the corner of a room, so you can catch yourself if you get wobbly.

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PHOTOGRAPHER’S NOTEBOOK: WALK IN STEP WITH STEVE J. GIARDINI TO COMPOSE A WINTER SCENE AT TODD LAKE

ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHY STEVE J. GIARDINI

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I SNOWSHOED FIVE MINUTES NORTHWEST FROM DUTCHMAN FLAT AND STOPPED. I turned off my headlamp and looked up. As I did, I exhaled creating a large cloud of warm mist that filled the icycold air. It was early, astronomical twilight still lingered. Stars were still prominent in the sky. The moon was traversing across the Southwest headed for a moonset. I could see the outlines of South Sister and Broken Top Mountains. Neither was my target this morning. The previous day the weather forecast called for nighttime snow at higher elevations. I imagined snow hanging from trees and a white blanket covering the ground. I immediately had a winter landscape photo idea.

It is a five-mile round-trip snowshoe trek from Dutchman Flat Snow Park to Todd Lake.

Each time I make this winter trip through the morning darkness along the forested path I am grinning from ear to ear. The sense of adventure and anticipation overrides any burden of physical effort required. Unlike the return trip, my 30-pound backpack full of camera gear is weightless on the outbound journey. Often my photo objective is to capture dramatic landscapes with big colorful cloudy skies. I knew this wouldn’t be the case on this adventure. But my photo preplan didn’t require a colorful sky. I planned a simple winter scene composition. I would use the “V” created by the snow-covered trees along the lake shoreline as a pointer.

A visual cue or compass that would lead the viewer’s eye directly to Mount Bachelor in the distance.

I hoped the morning sun would strike the East side of the mountain at an oblique angle revealing its groomed and un-groomed contours. And, maybe I’d get lucky and be offered a little alpenglow to enhance the image. I reached the lake with plenty of time to scout a composition from the furthermost shoreline. I debated what lens to use. A long lens would make the CONTINUED >

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mountain larger in the final image. But a wider angle would allow me to include more shoreline, more foreground water, more mountain reflection, and a bit of the frosted red grass along the shore closest to me.

As usual, time began to speed up the closer sunrise approached. I walked the shoreline, stopping frequently to look through the camera viewfinder. I settled on a composition. Time to mount the camera to the tripod and begin the test exposure process. I had my settings dialed in. It was about then that it dawned on me I hadn’t seen another person the entire trip. I had this place all to myself. It was silent.

The blue hour arrived—the period that coincides with civil twilight and proceeds the official sunrise time. It was happening. It was the perfect hue for the photo I imagined. The blue tone and hint of fog on the water surface added just the right amount of atmosphere. Click. It was peaceful. Click. It was magical. Click. It was stunning. Click. It was over.

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ARTIST’S PALETTE VALERIE WINTERHOLLER’S CONTEMPORARY CANVASES EVOKE THE UNSPOKEN LANGUAGE OF EXPRESSION

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"Conversations," size: 36" x 24".

art exploration WHEN VALERIE WINTERHOLLER NEEDS TO FIND CLARITY, SHE DOESN’T HAVE TO TRAVEL FAR. While some find peace by skiing or mountain biking, she finds meditation in her art studio. Born and raised in Bend, Valerie has always pursued the language of expression, whether by studying drafting and violin in her youth or later while getting a degree in sculpture at Southern Oregon University. After attending to a first career in real estate management with her husband Tyler, it was by taking an Art in the Mountains class that signaled her return to a creative space and where she realized, “This is where I’m supposed to be, I know what I need to be doing right now.”

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For Valerie, each painting begins on a Masonite panel, skimmed with clay and mounted on two-inch birch panels.

Winterholler has an interest in the study of linguistics and the way we assign meaning to letters and symbols, so it is from that intellectual foundation that she begins each painting with a light, energetic channeling of “language” that has no meaning other than as a guide. “There is no focal point, unless I put it there,” she explains while acknowledging that those initial spiritual “guides” will disappear as she lays down layers of acrylic paint over them and then washes the paint back as part of her process. As

"An Act of Clarity," size: 36" x 48".

a contemporary artist, she is aware of the relationship between artist, canvas and then to the viewer, and she revels in the sacredness of those bonds. “Art has a meaning we CONTINUED >

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ARTIST’S PALETTE (CONTINUED) "Weathering," size: 36" x 24".

See Valerie’s work at: Peterson Contemporary Art Gallery 206 NW Oregon Ave. #1, Bend "Irretrievable Time," size: 40" x 60".

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WHY WAIT? haven’t discovered yet, and that comes from our inner dialogue,” she says. Each of us will bring our own histories and memories to the moment of viewing her art, she explains,

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exact supplies they needed. So, in 2019, Julie cre-

Bend Gives focus is not just on arbitrarily gathering donations,

ated Bend Gives as a way to fill those gaps. “The

but getting those that will be put to immediate use. In order to

purpose of Bend Gives is to support existing non-

do this, Julie spends a lot of time speaking with people in var-

profits working with children in Central Oregon by

ious organizations to find out what’s missing right now so she

communicating current needs and facilitating the

can help fill that gap. “What I love, and what is so wonderful

collection of these items,” she says.

about Bend, is that many of the nonprofits work together to fill

Julie wanted to ensure that resources were being

needs, which I think is beautiful,” she says. “It makes for a better

allocated in a really effective way. For example, she

distribution of resources.” Julie often posts on the Bend Gives

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about what different charities need. She offers porch pick-ups, or

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OVERCOMING THE HURDLES OF A PANDEMIC, FILMMAKERS EMILY AND NATHAN WOODWORTH CONTINUE TO CREATE AND RELEASE MULTIFACETED CONTENT AND ARE BUSIER THAN EVER. Originally from the Bay Area, the Woodworth family moved to Central Oregon in 1999. Their childhood hobbies of shooting films on their parent’s camcorder carried over into adulthood as Emily got her MFA in Creative Writing. Nathan went on to do stand-up

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comedy and progressed seamlessly into theater,

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he starred in The Actors’ Gang production of

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“Johnny Got His Gun,” directed by Tim Robbins.

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Company. There, the two hatched a comedy web

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series that takes place in a coffee shop, appro-

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now in its second season on YouTube. Realizing

share our film with people around the world who otherwise would not have been able to attend the physical festival,” Nathan says. “We were overjoyed to have our film premiere at the 2020 BendFilm Festival, and winning the Audience Award was an unexpected honor,” Nathan adds.

The Woodworths feel that Central Oregon is one of the easiest places to shoot because of its natural beauty, culture and community support. “The Purse: A Dream in Two Acts” was shot in and around the Sisters area. The pair is currently working on another feature length film and plan to shoot in Oregon. “The future of filmmaking in Oregon is bright. Not only does Oregon provide tons of unique environments – it provides some pretty great incentives for Oregonian filmmakers.

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