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This thread about Mokuhankan is continued from Part Four, and began here.

Dave gets up from the study desk, and calls a 'thank you' to the clerk, who comes over to pick up the print they had been viewing. They make their way back out to the lobby, and Dave leads the way over to the opposite side from which they had earlier entered. Yet again, everything is light-coloured wood, and greenery. They pass through, into ...

Dave: Well, here we are - the Mokuhankan Café. What's a Gallery/Museum without a pleasant café to sit and think about what you have seen ... And we're right bang in the middle of the lunch time rush!

It's ... a café. Wide windows face the main street, the overall appearance is bright and airy, and the entire space is crowded with tables where people sit eating and chatting.

Dave: I see that they've kept 'my' little table over there open for me, so we're OK. (There are a few little advantages about being the 'top guy', you know!)

As they make their way in, a young lady passes them coming outwards, pushing a low cart.

Dave: That's the lunch cart heading over to the workshop and offices. Everybody put their orders in earlier this morning (online, of course).

The café operates cafeteria-style, and they take their place at the end of the line, each taking a tray. They select their items, and as they approach the register, Dave reaches over . . .
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Deliberate Acts: Prints, Drawings and Installations by Daniel Allegrucci opens this Friday, 11/19/10 at McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte and occupies the 2nd floor of the building. The opening is from 6-9. The show features work created since I have been an 11-Month Affiliate Artist at the center.

I have departed from my typical color scheme to experiment with more a saturated and lively palette in the most recent installments of the explosion woodcut series. I also have 2 sets of drawings on display. The first is a comprised of 12 charcoal and wash drawings selected from 21 explosion drawings I created this past June and installed in a 4 X 3 grid. The second set includes 3 pastel explosion drawings on wood, cut out.

There are also 2 mixed media installations on display, as well as several unique (1/1) monochromatic woodcut prints created from small woodblocks depicting arrays of nails, staples and other everyday shrapnel.