Clean it all up.
Throw away the charcter, the grit
and the relics. Cover what’s left wth
a heavy coat of paint so that your eye
can’t penetrate the surface.
Yeah, he said. The what you have is the
Resort Culture
~ Even after 25 years in Truckee, Pam McAdoo sometimes misses the farmland outside New York City where she was raised. The arts are her passion, from drawing, painting, printmaking, and book arts, to music, dance, and architecture. With “In The Moment,” she pays homage to Paul Madonna, whose artful synthesis of text and reportage illustration has inspired her to add words to her visual records of North Tahoe and Truckee — conversations overheard or thoughts that arise in the moment when she’s drawing.
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