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Whenever I’m driving down to Seattle Fish Guys, I
glimpse the steeple of an old church. Although I’ve long thought that I’d like
to get close enough to sketch it, I’m usually in a hurry to do whatever other
errands have brought me to the other end of town. Last week, despite the
drizzle, I impulsively took a turn to find the church and finally sketch it.
It turned out to be St. Mary’s Catholic Church, which has had issues and is now closed. According to this 2022 article, “A 120-year-old parish in Seattle, once home to a thriving African-American population, is set to close its doors amidst prayerful protests and a still ongoing appeal to the Vatican.”
Here’s another benefit of urban sketching: I never would have learned that about a 120-year-old church in the Central District if I hadn’t sketched it.
I had something similar happen to me when I stopped by a Dairy Queen in a nearby town. The inside wasn't very appealing so I ate my Blizzard in the parking lot where to my surprise I could see a thin spindly spiral rising above neighborhood houses. I couldn't resist tracking it down to see what denomination it was. To my surprise, it was a Mormon "Stake" which led me to some googling once I got home. But in the meantime, I enjoyed sketching it.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Urban sketching leads to many inadvertent discoveries!
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