The Downtown Improvement District is excited to be showing the photography of Scott Owens. The collection of works, Sunsets, is currently on display in our office at 127 S Fraser Street. Stop in, Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm, to see these stunning photographs printed on canvas!
Owens, a 1972 Penn State grad, has been part of the State College community for more than 60 years. His work focuses on sunsets, which he describes in an excerpt from his artist’s statement:
Why sunsets? In the summer of 1997, while taking a family vacation abroad, I decided to call home to my brother just to check in on things. The call was from a phone booth (way before cell phones!) on the busy streets of Paris. My brother had the misfortune of having to tell me that my mother had suddenly passed away a few days earlier. I was in shock! There were lots of tears and I didn’t know what to do. Should I leave my family and fly back to the USA somehow? My brother said that there was no need to do anything. There wouldn’t be a service until the fall when the whole family could get together. But I still felt helpless… useless… like I should have been there! A few hours after that call home, there was a beautiful sunset over the city of Paris. In my deep shock and despair, this sunset spoke to me. It was a message from my mother saying, “Everything is ok… I’m fine and you will be ok too.” Ever since then, when I see a beautiful sunset, I see a message from my mother!
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