McMenamins hotels dedicate rooms to individuals that figure somehow into the history of place. The "Art House" in their Bend property feature artists, sometimes those that taught in the property when it was a school and sometimes their own artists for this or other restorations. The latter is the case in Hadley Ferguson's room.
I particularly like the self-reference in Hadley's self-portrait that hangs over the sofa in our room. Objects change to earlier ones including the whole composition reduced to pencil sketch in the third generation.
In this artist's statement Hadley describes her early influence working with other McMenamins artists first painting pipes and then large works in her new found love for color.
I tried to turn my laptop camera toward this work as Thompson and I were signing off from our weekly chat. The video connection didn't hold.
Instead I took cell phone pictures and wrote this page as a substitute. I wanted more resolution than offered by wiki's postcard sized images so I uploaded the camera's files as the attachments below and cite them with html image and anchor tags.
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