LINN COUNTY — Brookfield’s emerging artist, Sarah Williams, has been living and attending graduate school in the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX. metroplex for the past couple of years. But as   a painting that will be featured in an exhibit at the University of North Texas Art Gallery reveals, her rural roots and continuing bond to her childhood home in Linn County remains strong.
“Marceline Dusk” is a painting of an abandoned, forgotten place about to succumb to darkness that nevertheless tells us something about Disney’s Boyhood Home that visitors would probably never be shown on a guided tour.
As Williams explains, “Being raised in a small town and then moving to an urban setting for my education has made me aware of the seemingly mundane, anonymous scenes that tend to be ignored.”
From July 14 to August 15, Williams’ “Marceline Dusk” will be anything but ignored as it will be included in an exhibit appropriately entitled “Recovery and Reinvention.”
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once observed, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river, and he’s not the same man.”
As change is the only constant,  the two-step process of recovery and reinvention involves a retrieval of the past followed by a reconstruction of former impressions of place that requires looking at and reproducing them in a different way.
Rather than paint a scene from Marceline that is the usual focus, such as the museum or one of the many attractions on Main Street USA, Williams has depicted something less familiar, but still captures the comings and goings that are typical of everyday life in the community.
 

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