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08/05/2006

Real beauty found in the Johsel Namkung art exhibit at the Asian Art museum

Real beauty found in the Johsel Namkung art exhibit at the Asian Art museum

By: Sheri Fresonke Harper
Category: Opinion > Other
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The Johsel Namkung art exhibit at the Asian Art museum is pure pleasure. The exhibit is in one room just left of the main exit. Here you find rocks, trees, water, metal captured with true inspiration. My favorite was a picture captured at dawn on the Yakima river where ice had formed among some rocks. You have to see it to believe. Lucky for everyone the artist caught the photograph before it melted. Also on display is the heavy special camera used to capture big pictures with every single part of the photograph crisply in focus. Most of the pictures were digitally re-mastered using a high quality scanner. Several photos were taken in Korea. The picture of water has so many pine needle shaped plants, it's hard to believe you're not in grass but it also has a surprise -- it took me about 10 minutes to find the small dragonfly. The exhibit is on through to October, so if you have a moment, stop by on one of the free-First-Thursday showings and check it out. You'll be tempted to buy Johsel Namkung's new book.

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