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Artist Jack Gunter, an egg tempera painter for 28 years, has taken a distinct turn from the early large scale paintings he exhibited with N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth in 1975.

He now utilizes paintings, photographs, pre-Colombian artifacts, 3,000 square feet of "restored narrative" ceramic objects, and glass cast at the Pilchuck School in a museum-like display complete with side rooms, niches, Smithsonian-style antique cabinets, and a documentary film.
Visitors are encouraged to tour these rooms in a guided walk which reveals evidence of early number systems, political disagreements, and many advanced social concepts attributed to a Pacific Northwest settlement which flourished 30,000 years ago - scraped away by the last ice-age glaciation.
 
The pottery narratives teeter on the edge of good taste and science. The artist blends math, technology, greed, humor, censorship, religion and early recreational slices of life designed to create a private moment of understanding with its visitors.

Most leave smiling, having gained some insight into a very unsettling present-day. Many of the estimated 22,000 visitors to date have returned to explore the installation a second time.

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