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Lake Superior: An artist’s palette “I've always been interested in the relationship between art and the sense of place. Lake Superior has been an artistic focus for indigenous culture for thousands of years, and from that point on artist-explorers were drawn to the north shore especially. For any creative, the light has a transcendental quality to both the water and where it meets the sky. The infinite sense of mystery, the depth of the water, and the land around it, are what make Lake Superior. You could take the water out of the lake and put it in the prairies or the Eurasian steppes, but it wouldn't be Lake Superior. It’s the cradle of land that it lies in— a vast rift valley that runs on underneath has shaped it over eons.”
- Michael Burtch, artist and sculptor
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