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“Heartland”
Excerpts: "We often speak about the "magic" of a place. We say magical because we want it to describe so many things, to leave it to the listener to mull over the meaning. We say it because we don't really know how to translate the impact the vision has upon us. Marc intuitively senses the magic in a place. He hears and, more importantly, listens to the mythology of the land. A dirt trail running off through scrub is obviously more than the sum of the image. Yet there’s nothing iconographic or symbolic about it. The eyes see it, the mind processes. I look more closely. And the sounds outside fade. I'm unaware of the senses. The mind drops away. Like a waking dream, I find myself imagining the countless feet trampling that trail. The animals over the ages, their hides rubbing against the brush, leaving wispy strands of dead hair to mark their passage, leading their young off to some unforeseen, undetermined destination. A young man wearing sandals is looking for something. Dust settling from the dry days covers the underbrush. It’s just a trail. There is so much in so little. I suddenly realize I’m thirsty." -- Lacy Wilkinson "There is no place like the Midwest, and one must live there to really know what I mean by that (which is the
“Under A Big Sky”
Excerpts: "When I was a young art student (quite a bad one) I wanted to paint something that would impress my grandparents. In those days, people liked “weathered” barns. You’d get a catch in your throat every time you saw some decrepit old building on the highway, especially if it had a pitched roof. So I slaved away at a rendition of our garage, a reeking, fall-down yellow building full of mice. But my painting showed it from a certain distance. Sure enough, my grandfather loved it. He said, “That’s perfect, I remember that barn.” It’s not a barn, grandfather, it’s a garage. “Yes, and inside that window is right where you did your science experiment with the mouse. It’s beautiful.” That’s sentiment, as pure as it gets. But landscape painters have often found more subtle ways to exploit unearned feelings, e.g., happy trails, platonic wildflowers, anecdotal mountains. You look at a painting by Marc Bohne and you don’t recognize your garage or a Kodak vista point, but you’re emotionally moved, often by an almost anonymous landscape. No false memories are invoked. The land suggests what I called, as a child, secret hiding places. There are no hooks from which to hang your old assumptions." ****
There are a limited number of signed books available. The studio will offer a set of both books for $52.00 U.S. shipped, or either singly. If you would like to purchase one, please do one of the following: Make your check or money order for $26.00 (USD) (shipped in the U.S.) payable to “Marc Bohne” for either book, and mail to the following address. Please specify which book in any paper correspondance. For "Under A Big Sky" :
For "Heartland":
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