Profiles
A Mosaic of Life
PROFILE - JULY 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
One Portland family’s three decades and three generations of tile
At the age of ten, a time when many boys are still messing about in the mud of the school yard, young Joseph Capozza was already working beside his father and learning to mix “mud,” or masonry mortar, and set tile flooring.
Listening to Color
PROFILE - JULY 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
A Rockport designer who nurtures the old with a touch of the new
Half a dozen French armoires crowded the room. Tables were stacked high atop one another, willy-nilly, and practically blocked the sunlight cascading in from the windows. As interior designer Deborah Chatfield remembers it, the chateau-like Louisiana home of her mentor, Jane Fleniken, overflowed with fine French antiques.
The New New England
PROFILE - JUNE 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
A Gardener of Earthly Delights
Even in early April—the trees just beginning to bud, the grass more brown than green, and the ground still soggy—a tourist with Pennsylvania plates has pulled to the shoulder of Route 9 in Kennebunk to take a closer look at Snug Harbor Farm.
A Craftsman's Journey
PROFILE - JUNE 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
Revealing the essence of wood
Rising from a meadow at the edge of Kennebunkport, the Huston & Company workshop and showroom has both a modern feel and a rambling, New England quality—like the surrounding farms, the building looks as though it has been gradually expanded over the years and shaped by its industry. This venue—with its pleasing tension between old and new—is a fitting venue for Bill Huston’s custom woodworking. Huston’s designs combine the sleek, confident lines of contemporary Scandinavian design with traditional aesthetics of the Shaker legacy and the American Arts and Crafts movement. Celebrating twenty years in business, Huston continues to push the edges of his timeless craft.
Field Work
PROFILE - JUNE 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
A Portland design team captures the gestures of nature
If connection is a gift—a lightning spark between seemingly disparate things—then reconnection is a blessing.
For Friederike Hamann and Colin Sullivan-Stevens connection came while they were both attending the Rhode Island School of Design—Hamann all the way from her native Germany and Sullivan-Stevens from his home in Freeport. Years after graduating, the pair reconnected in Maine. Today, working under the moniker Field, the couple is creating large wall paintings that are connecting and reconnecting home interiors to the natural landscape beyond their walls. Additionally, Hamann and Sullivan-Stevens—who are 31 and 36 years old respectively—maintain a space on Portland’s India Street that is as much a living, evolving work of art as it is a gallery showcasing their paintings, object designs, and print work.
The Permanence of Print
PROFILE - MAY 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
An artist who brings modern sensibilities to old technology
At a time when our culture is obsessed with products and gadgetry that are light, fast, and disposable, David Wolfe has been iconoclastically creating a body of art over the past three decades that is not only heavy and slow, but permanent.
Reaching Out
PROFILE - MAY 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
An entrepreneur enraptured with design, dining, and community
Life thrives on a salt marsh. Sweeps of spartina grass draw in migrating snow geese. Deer and the occasional moose wander from the woods to graze. Along the edge of the tidal river, mussels and crabs hunker in the peaty soil. In winter, the salt water carries little rafts of ice toward the sea, and in the spring what was dull and brown becomes lush and green again. Like the daily ebb and flow of the tide, the marsh marks the passage of time.
Authentic Collaborator
PROFILE - MAY 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
A Belfast-based builder with a penchant for fine design and meticulous craftsmanship
Authentic. This is the word Jay Fischer uses to describe true Mainers, those unique yet familiar characters he has come to know over the three decades he has lived in the state. When Fischer, the founder and owner of Cold Mountain Builders in Belfast, uses the word, it is always accompanied by a smile. “Yeah, they’re the real deal,” he’ll say. “Authentic.”
Curating a Mythical Maine
PROFILE Thomas Denenberg - APRIL 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
The PMA's chief curator eyes the future with a firm grasp of the past
The Effects of Careful Observation
PROFILE Sam Van Dam - MARCH 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
Architect with an artist's heart
The odd angles of the abandoned
The Moments Between the Moments
PROFILE Cig Harvey - MARCH 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
A portrait of the photographer as a storyteller
In the kitchen of her circa 1840 farmhouse, Cig Harvey sits with her back to the window. A shaft of winter afternoon sunlight pours over her, and the brightness makes a thin halo around her dark hair. Two cups of tea cool on the cluttered kitchen table. A tiny, bright taxidermy bird pokes its head from a child’s lunchbox.
The Energy Around Us
PROFILE Les Otten - MARCH 2008
By Candace Karu
Photography Darren Setlow
An Entrepeneur Captures the Power of the Maine Forest
Les Oten has spent a lifetime managing energy. Though he is often described with words such as “smart,” “driven,” and “successful,” the word “energetic” is the one used most frequently to characterize Otten’s almost palpable aura of dynamism. His unrelenting schedule would exhaust many men half his age, but his capacity for work and play seems boundless. This ability to harness and direct his energies has served him well as an entrepreneur, and has fueled a life of remarkable accomplishment.
Singular Vision, Duality of Spirit
PROFILE - JAN/FEB 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
One Artist's Compulsion for Both Art and History
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One Life & Many Homes
PROFILE Dyke Messler - JAN/FEB 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
A contagious devotion to all things "home"
There are numerous individuals who passionately pursue their interests alone, rarely involving others people in their ventures. And then there are people like Rockport’s Dyke Messler, a man who constantly draws other into the gravitational orbit of his passions. Like the ever-widening ripples of a pebble thrown into a still lake, Messler’s personal obsessions have had a discernable influence on
Chasing the Spark
PROFILE Tom Veilleux - JAN/FEB 2008
By Joshua Bodwell
Photography Darren Setlow
A lifetime spent pursuing artistic excellence
Tom Veilleux enjoys the chase.
Veilleux is an art dealer who has spent 35 years chasing something elusive and ethereal. He has devoted more than half his life to answering an unanswerable question: What elevates some art to the level of great art? And then, when he believes he has discovered something great, he buys it with his own money and hopes he will be able to resell it later.
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