Its hard to find any political issue the Carmel Pine Cone Publisher Paul Miller and I agree upon. His loathing for environmental protection, the laws protecting it, and his sucking up to Clint Eastwood and his Pebble Beach Company forest destruction project are a “good” start.
Miller’s vitrolic personal attacks on those working (technically volunteering) to protect our environment from corporate greed, mostly women (the wonderful Melanie Billig successfully saving Flanders mansion, Water Board member Kristi Markey, Elizabeth Howard and Dr. Laura Pasten are a few), are extraordinary for our community where the media are generally civil.
In fact those who’ve been attacked by Miller often consider it a kind of badge of honor to have earned Miller’s wrath against our environment. That’s because Miller doesn’t attack you unless you’ve been successful.
Of course Miller has cast aspersions on me as well. “The Dilworth Phenomena” is up on my wall. I get a smile every time I see it; his desperate denunciation of my leading the successful battle to protect the imperiled Monterey Pine forest from Clint Eastwood and his Chainsaw Massacre. Wow, I got an avalanche of support when that editorial came out. Might even frame it someday.
(Maybe all of us who’ve been attacked by Miller should get together as a group to toast his teeth gnashing.)
Well, apparently Miller can’t constrain his fury to politics – it leaks over into the art world.
This week’s Carmel Pine Cone published a nice story about an art opening at Big Sur’s New Camaldoli Hermitage. It went on and on about my dear friend Tom Davies who richly deserves applause for his vivid landscape paintings. The article went on to mention all the other artists displaying fabulous work at the Hermitage: Father Arthur Poulin, Leo Neufeld, Dan Cronin, and Kathrin Burleson. The article even quotes the wonderful gallery curator “BeBe.”
There was only one name missing from the article — the featured artist. Was that an accident ?
The Pine Cone writer, Chris Counts, knew the artist’s name and that his work was featured for the Opening party.
The Herald’s Arts Section mentioned the artist and published one of his photographs. The Weekly published another of the artist’s photographs in their “Hot Picks” and mentioned his name as the “featured artist,” as did the gallery’s quarterly newsletter.
So why would the Carmel Pine Cone’s Miller take pains to leave out the name of the featured artist ?
Perhaps . . .
because the artist . . .
is me. 🙂
-David Dilworth
InspiringLandscapes.com
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