Mark Price | Crazy Oaks Crafts
IS THE IMAGE REAL?

IS THE IMAGE REAL?

The image is as real as any I have known: vivid, sharp, and sure. The sun is very high and hot. I am running as fast as a runner may ever run. The images of crows and clouds preoccupy the very front of my mind. Suddenly, I am suspended. I am upside down. I take stock...
THE SHADOW MAN

THE SHADOW MAN

It is surpassing strange that reality is something that can be all of one thing in one moment, and be some entirely different thing in the next.   Take for example the experience of sleep.  We wrestle with problems, sometimes even solve them, and then awaken to sort...
ANAGRAM INDIANS

ANAGRAM INDIANS

I was trying to plan a fishing trip the other day, with my official state map of Oklahoma spread before me on the table.  There were more than enough streams and lakes.  But the more I studied the map, the more I got distracted by all the place names and the mystery...
COWBOYS

COWBOYS

Until he came to Oklahoma in 1970, Steve Przelomski had never seen a sunset.  The first one he saw made an impression on him that his friends from the old neighborhood in Newark could not understand.  Of the four young men who left New Jersey to attend St. Gregory’s...
THE ZEN OF CLUTTER

THE ZEN OF CLUTTER

A great fraud has been perpetrated on an unsuspecting West.  We are supposed to believe that a person sitting in a Japanese sand garden or in an empty rice-paper room is enjoying a peaceful respite from the cares of life.  Don’t be misled.  The man in the silk...