Banking on the Columbia Poster

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When we say that we’re banking on something or someone, we mean that we’re depending on them to come through for us, in a matter that is important to us.

Perhaps this derives from our concept of financial institutions, which – in a corporate culture infused with the worship of money and making lots of it – are supposed to be dependable. We forget that, as ordinary people who do not control the finances of countries and nations, businesses and ordinary people, we have little say in the world of money.

But there’s another kind of banking – that of drawing our vessel up to shore and parking it there, secure that, if it is high enough above tide, and/or tied to something on the shore, it will not move, and it will be there when we need to push off from shore again, off onto our adventures.

Banking on the Columbia, the artwork, follows the spirit of this second interpretation. A lone canoe, having traveled the calm, still waters of the Columbia River i...

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