Curator & Collector

I created the current header image* for this blog from my own photograph of Roy Henry Vickers’ Eagle Aerie Gallery in Tofino, BC. This gallery was built by Arthur Vickers, himself an accomplished artist and Roy Vickers’ younger brother.

I am not adept at “photoshopping” images, but I added black-and-white effects using Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery in what is intended to be both an allusion and a tribute to Roy Vickers’ own imaging of his gallery:

Image of Roy Henry Vickers’ Solstice 2001 taken from his gallery page

The change from the old, more numismatically-oriented header is intended to reflect the shift of emphasis that has occurred in my writing over the last few months.

Of course, I created the previous header image from my own photograph of some of my numismatic items, several of which I no longer now possess.

I am also hoping to have a new header image that combines both my interests in numismatics and the art of the Northwest Coast at some point in the future.
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On another note, I will be exceptionally busy for the next week and a half or so; blogging will be light.
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*A note about the header images: I know that only the top left parts are shown in the header, but I can never remember exactly the correct dimensions of the image space available in the header; it is the version that WordPress fits, rather than the whole image that I have created, that is the intended header.