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Deborah DeWit, Traveling Light
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   For my birthday my friends Bill and Connie sent to me a wonderful
   little book of some 80+ pages written by Deborah DeWit Marchant called
   Traveling Light, Chasing an Illuminated Life. Deb DeWit, who lives
   outside of Portland, Oregon, is an artist with a camera. I met her
   while I was a stockbroker back in the mid eighties. I was impressed by
   her talent and the fact that she didn't crop any of her photographs.
   What she saw, you saw. I purchased from her a photo of an open white
   gate before an unpaved one lane road that ran off to the right. Beyond
   the gate in the background is a big light blue or gray sky, maybe its
   fog. The gate seems to stand at the top of a hill with no clue about
   what's hidden over the rise or down the road. I always found it
   fascinating and calming to imagine what DeWit didn't include in the
   photo.

   The book is a tale of her journey as an artist fascinated by light and
   her quest to capture on film the feelings she had about the light. She
   quit college and took a train back to Scotland and she writes

     ...the light enveloped and caressed me as it throbbed across the
     dusky expanses of maroon hills and midnight valleys...Once again my
     pulse, like a thousand bouncing marbles, filled my ears, my veins,
     my heart, until I thought I would burst.

   It's a tale of her growth as a woman and an artist, her shifting from
   capturing the outside to focusing on the inside. I am pleased to have
   known Deb in those early years and fascinated with where she is today.
   She writes on the last page,

     Just as each photograph I stopped to take was the key that opened
     my eyes to the next image, I am convinced that what we see along
     our path is a reflection, a manifestation, of everything we have
     seen up until that moment.

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