This image was done as a tribute to an artist friend who was very talented but died before his time. I miss him very much. There is a park at Fort Worden State Park where during WWI and WWII it was the home to long-range gunnery emplacements protecting the straits of The Strait of Juan de Fuca. The guns are all gone but the structures are all intact. However the concrete bunkers are being reclaimed by nature with stalactites dipping here and there. It is a fun place for exploring and hide and seek As you explore the bunkers there is a curious feeling of the people who once walked these bunkers and manned the guns. There is a sculpture garden at the top of a hill called memory’s vault. It was perfect to remember Gene. There’s a skeletal backbone for all the people who served in this place and are no longer living. There are photographs of the bunker, a postcard of one of Genes paintings. On the other side there is a piece of newsprint that is changing as time goes by and a Dragonfly as a guardian of the memories.
