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ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2018
SKY’S THE LIMIT
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Artist Heather Hutchison draws inspiration from the natural world through her series of light-capturing boxes at Alfstad& Contemporary.
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Sarasota Opera opens its Winter Festival with Giacomo Puccini’s impressive four-act opera. PAGE 10
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“Departed (2006)” is one of several of Heather Hutchison’s works that are inspired by the color of water and sky.
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eather Hutchison has experienced many different skies in her lifetime, and for the past 10 years, she’s spent much of her time trying to capture them in a box. “I grew up always reading the sky,” Hutchison says. “Then we lived in Laguna Beach, we lived in Oregon, all these places where the sky was very important to me. When I moved to New York, there wasn’t really much sky, so the first pieces I did in this reality were just making blocks of sky.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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