'Splintered' exhibit joins sound and text

 

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS – No, it’s not a church, it’s a barn, but quiet and music are integral to the exhibit “Splintered,” the text/sound installation at the Bitters Co. Best and Calhoun Roads property.    – Photo courtesy of Mark Wilson

Throughout the Skagit Valley are a number of 100-plus year old barns. These structures’ forms are reminders of times past and present, where work takes place in its many qualities.

The Carson sisters, Amy and Katie, have such a barn on their property, on the southeast corner of Best and Calhoun Roads, built in the first quarter of the past century. It has lived through many lives: cattle, hay, storage, mechanical works, flowers, art and now wood shop and painting studio as well as their place of business involving international crafts, Bitters Co.

Those who enter the barn are awe struck b...



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