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Bob McGowan’s “Transitions” Graces the New West Office

By New West Editor, 3-08-07

	"Baggage," from Bob McGowan's photography show "Transitions." Click the image to view the show in New West's Photo Gallery.

The New West home office is fortunate to host the photography of Bob McGowan this month. Bob's show, Transitions, captures the comings and goings of travelers in Seattle's Sea-Tac airport. These little slices of life in transit, lit by moody afternoon light, are printed on a metallic paper perfectly suited to the steely sheen of the airport decor. The show will hang at the New West offices (just off of N. Higgins, in the alley behind Worden's and the Old Post) for the month of March, so please swing by during business hours to see the show. For those of you unable to make it here, we've posted the show in the New West Photo Gallery. Enjoy!

Bob's Artist Statement for "Transitions"

Arrival, layover, transitions, delay, departure. The inescapable quandaries of daily life. What do I have to do today? Tomorrow? Next week? Year? Ten years? What did I eat for breakfast? Where do I have to be this evening? How am I going to get there? Where was I yesterday at 2:30 in the afternoon? What am I going to say? What will then think? What will I be when I grow up?

No matter where one is, there they are. Do you know where that is? Do you sense it? Does it escape you while you become somewhere else?

In these frozen moments and in an environment designed for lives coming and going, the present is there, but were the lives? Where were they in their life at that moment?

Did they notice the space? Did they notice the moment surrounding them? Light, shadow, sound, voices reflections, movement. Thought and people all coming and going. Did they notice?

Quandaries.

Click here to view "Transitions."

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