Walking Through What Used to Be Wetlands

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Scott Starbuck lives near Carver, Oregon, where the wild and scenic Clackamas River he’s fished for over 30 years begins flowing through new suburban neighborhoods. “Some of my recent claywork explores this intersection of ancient sustaining life forces like fish and meadows with modern industrial technology. I remember Willa Cather wrote in 1927, ‘Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.’” Some of his other claywork has been accepted by the Columbia River Gallery and The Spirit of the Salmon Fund for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.

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