Barbara Earl Thomas

Barbara Earl Thomas

September 15, 2013 by admin

This is part of the special section, Art as Research.

I look, see, experience, and translate; move beyond the hunch into the idea; to manifest, document and report back to my viewer in the form of images, structures and installations, what I have found.
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March 31, 2005 by admin

It was April 1968: I was out for lunch break with Jim and Mary, co-workers from the general accounting office where we worked in the University District. They were old hands in the office. I was new on staff and excited. This was my first real job out of high school after a string of just so-so jobs. There had been the eyeglass factory where I stood, eight hours a day for three months in a windowless basement knocking lead weights off newly polished eyeglass lenses with a mallet. A friend of my mother's had gotten me that job.

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