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Lisa created California Love in Point Lobos State Park where wonderful marvels and curious creatures began to appear around her.

It was not what the papers said, but rather, it was the fact that the papers even existed at all that made them so unusual.

It was the end of 2007 when Sheila Finch sat in the car with one hundred small fractures in her foot, three spiral breaks at her ankle, and one broken Fibula just below the knee.

Every so often, as a special treat, a young DL Watson and her family would pile into the car – DL in the backseat as the car slowed over the bump of the planked wooden bridge that would, if only for an evening, compress the distance between South Florida and tropical Polynesia.

Patrick Soper, a painter from Lafayette, Louisiana, has taken on the tireless pursuit of conveying the subtleties and individualities of women in his series of nudes, “Eve-O-Lution.”

Every inch of worked exaggerated, distorted style doles out excitement to the eye. The eye bounces through the array of reds, oranges, and purples tracked along the nervous system of smudged and sketched lines that interconnect the composition.

Whether a building itself or the objects with which you fill it, a space can become more than style – it can become lifestyle.

This paradoxical pairing of “still” and “life” – combined to signal the genre of painting commonly associated with strategically arranged fruit and shiny vases – is the odd couple that has ended up side-by-side for centuries. 

More than just a handy inclement weather accessory, take a closer look at the Umbrella's hidden history.