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for a hike on a snowy winter morning. She photographed the tracks for reference, but her paintings are not copies of the photos. “I blew up the photos, and I played with putting parts together. I exaggerated the colors and changed the backgrounds.” She shrugs and smiles.
The titles of the nine big paintings — expanses as big and bold as a field freshly blanketed with snow — and four smaller drawings are all taken from her husband’s poem. As printed in the slim volume, Longworks, published by Sun and Moon Press, Jim Wine’s poetry is almost a painting in itself, the arrangement of words and white space making its own set of tracks across the pages. It’s apparent that the two find inspiration in the same places and in each other. And Eva Wine’s exhibit at Middle Street is but her first visual expression of his lyrical art. “This is just the beginning of something,” she says with certainty. “I feel there’s a lot more from the poems that’s coming.”
Eva Jonasson Wine's exhibit Tracks will be at the Middle Street Gallery in Washington for the month of October. Hours are 11 a.m. | to 6 p.m., Friday through Sunday. ,
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