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I got off on this stairway series after walking the beaches of Western Michigan admniring the stairways people build from their homes on the dunes down to the beach. These stairways are a unique feature of the West Michigan landscape.
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The Silent Stairways Series |
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Blue Chairs
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Upstairs House
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Moon Stairs
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Long Way Down
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Under the Stairs
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Dune House 2
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Downstairs Chairs
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Summer Stairs
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Private Stairs
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Secret Stairs
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Mount Baldy
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Dune Stairs
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Dead End
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Hidden Dinghy
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Broken Stairs
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Beach Ladder
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Dune House 1
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Mountain Stairs
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Summer Pier
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The Big Climb
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Tree House
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Tire Swing
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Silent Stairways
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I've been walking the beaches of Western Michigan for over 20 years, admiring the dunes and the sea and sometimes contemplating the long, meandering stairways people build from their homes down to the beach. But its only recently that I've chosen to focus on these unique stairways as a subject for my work. I still don't know exactly what it is that grabs me about these stairways. They seem to hold a secret memory of anticipation, storing every footfall in their wooden steps from every family that ventures down for a day at the beach. It's the nostalgia of carefree summer fun, but also the mystery of strangers never met. And the houses... Who lives there? Where do they come from? Where are they now? Empty houses, most of them. Summer houses, vacant, waiting for the next family. The stairs, silent, brooding, except in summer months when footsteps, young and old echo up and down these old treads.
John Leben |
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