Paul Higgins
Abstract #1, 2020
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After spending the spring and early summer of 2020 working with underexposed black and white film, taking dark photos (both literally and metaphorically) of shattered windows and empty streets in downtown Portland, I found myself drawn more and more to abstraction, simple beauty, form, color . . . perhaps as an escape (hopefully not a blameworthy one) from the daily reality of this strange year.