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鍒嗚瑷�鐭ヨ瘑杩愮敤缁?/p>
(
鍏?/p>
)
鈪?/p>
.
瀹屽舰濉┖
About
30
years
ago,
Marie
Roth
taught
a
painting
class.
When
some
of
her
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expressed
an
interest
in
purchasing
her
works,
she
turned
painting
into
a
profession.
She鈥檚 70 now,
an age when many folks are starting to be
2
on the sofa in
front
of
the
TV
.
But
3
are
if
there鈥檚
a(n)
4
barn
(
璋蜂粨
)
coming
down
somewhere
in
northeastern
Illinois,
Marie
will
be
there.
Wearing
leather
gloves,
Marie will pick through the piles of wood and
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pieces that,
as she describes,
鈥渨hisper鈥?nbsp;to her. She鈥檒l remove the
6
boards to her home,
where she鈥檒l
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them and allow them to dry out before
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the pieces together and gluing them
into
place.
But
it鈥檚
only
when
Marie
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painting
them
in
the
eye-catching,
beautiful colors loved by every A
merican that it becomes clear what she鈥檚
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.
From
the
broken-down
barns,
she
constructs
fine
wooden
reproductions
of
the
American
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.
鈥淭he
wood
is
continually
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by
animals,
or
sometimes
nailed
and
hammered by humans, 鈥?nbsp;she said. 鈥淩ecently,
I ha
d a piece of wood from the floor
of a barn that was
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by hooves (
韫勫瓙
). I used it to paint flags from the Civil
War era
鈥?/p>
the marks made me
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all those brave soldiers. 鈥?/p>
Marie comes by her love of barn wood
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because her father is a carpenter.
She painted her first flag on a shipping pallet (
鎵樼洏
) more than 30 years ago. The old
pallet,
she
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,
鈥?/p>
17
looked like a flag. 鈥?/p>
The
self-taught
artist
paints
American
flags
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she
is
really
good
at