“The challenge to me was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless...limited physically but by no means spiritually.”
remains of an old fence behind the orchard..
“In the portraits of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of the soul, almost...to me, each window is a different part of Christina’s life.”
“I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.”
“I just couldn’t stay away from there..I always seemed to gravitate back to the house....it was Maine.”
The Olson House is owned by the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland. Find more information here.
on the way there.....
I stopped at what used to be Fales General Store. I missed seeing the alewives spread across the counter in rows.