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Don Suggs, 2012. Photo by: Douglas Messerli<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Messerli<\/a> writes on his impression of Don Suggs: Thermal Pool Paintings and Paradise Prints<\/a> <\/em>on his Green Integer Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suggs is perhaps more of a natural historian, an artist who connects the moment of creation not only to nature but to what was happening at those natural sites at the very moment of his witnessing of them, thus balancing the sense of their permanence with the very human moments in time through which we glimpse their significance.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

See the full write up at Green Integer Blog<\/a> and explore Don Sugg\u2019s exhibition online on our website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Suggs, 2012. Photo by: Douglas Messerli Douglas Messerli writes on his impression of Don Suggs: Thermal Pool Paintings and Paradise Prints on his Green Integer Blog: Suggs is perhaps more of a natural historian, an artist who connects the moment of creation not only to nature but to what was happening at those natural sites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,1085,130,1511,978,409,287],"class_list":["post-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-blog","tag-don-suggs","tag-douglas-messerli","tag-green-integer","tag-prints","tag-review"],"yoast_head":"\r\nNatural History (on Don Suggs' show "Thermal Pool Paintings and Paradise Prints") - L.A. 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