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I grew up in Louisiana," Heide Presse says, "and over
the years have taken many trips up and down the 'River Road,' exploring
old plantations along the Mississippi. Dressed in Ribbons Fair was
inspired by a stroll under a grove of centuries-old live oaks on
one of those plantations. I love this piece because the atmosphere
seems to border on fantasy, but everything in it is real or at least
within reach of reality. In fact the plantation trees were actually
larger than I've presented them here…but at the size and dimensions
they are now, they offer just the right dreamlike quality."
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