Last Chance

Catch it or Regret It

by Tami Fertig

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Published: Jun 25, 2008

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When longtime Highwire member Peter Kinney goes on vacation, he collects handfuls of sand, mud and gravel to later incorporate into acrylic and watercolor paintings. His latest materials come from Nevada, gathered up during a trip to Burning Man. In Sun and Earth, Death Valley, swirly sand dunes are speckled with brilliant yellow, orange and brown earth from Death Valley. Stop into Highwire's back room, as well, for Kinney's experiments with gooey chocolate on paper.

Jessica Demcsak's short stacks of colorful wooden blocks (pictured) — each one featuring the silhouette of a building from the South Kensington neighborhood just above East Girard Avenue — form a mini city on the floor of the Crane Arts Building. On the surrounding walls are dark wooden cutouts of Philly skyscrapers and what looks like the Ben Franklin Bridge.

During the 1950s, Japanese photographer Shozo Tomioka took pictures of people at work in the fishing villages of Wajima on the Noto Peninsula. The black-and-white images show a hard life for grown-ups — unsmiling women cutting up fish on a snow-covered table, or pushing a boat with all their might — but a decidedly happier one for kids, who frolic and jump near the beach.

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