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Piece Description
Every day Harry Orlyk gets in his truck, finds a good spot and paints an image of the land. No matter what the season, no matter what the weather, he paints, sitting inside his truck, his steering wheel, his easel. Harry Orlyk thinks he knows how to capture a landscape - how to find its essential humanity. And while we're often taught to see landscapes and depictions of people as opposites, Orlyk says they are intimately connected. Through his paintings of farms he is trying to show us that "farms are human - farms are places where the human presence is evident, but it is the human hand, not the face." After 30 years of riding over the same roads - slowly watching and painting the same land - Harry notes the changes in the landscape. He laments how his "heart's been broken" as a favorite painting place is lost, "I'll see a new house on a hilltop - and I loose that place." Originally aired on Weekend America December 4, 2004.
Broadcast History
Originally aired on Weekend America December 4, 2004.
Timing and Cues
06:20
Musical Works
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Review of A Painting a Day
The use of sound in this story is excellent. The audio from the truck, the farmer moving the cows and interviewing Harry in the field conveys a sense of place. Coupled with Lu's description, you can paint a picture of the landscape. Also, the tape of Harry is well edited and placed, requiring little narration. Lu does a good job of voicing with a conversational tone. Their is a good arc to the story - giving us a start of heading out in the morning and finishing the day with the unexpected stop for the cows.
Well done.