From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Portraits of Two Texas Artists

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Meeting Charles Stagg

Meeting Charles Stagg

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Portraits of Two Texas Artists

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Meeting Charles Stagg

Well, I was excited to meet Charles and to learn a little bit about him and about this place. One of the things that I needed to do was to try to get familiar with who he was, and what I noticed right off the bat is that he was a little bit soft-spoken and also that he had a lot of stories. He had lived and built this place over the last thirty years. I wanted to learn about it, and so we start to walk and to talk, and I was just asking him questions about how he built it. And what was so fascinating to me was that this structure, it almost revealed everything. You know, in typical construction what you do is you have framing and you have perhaps wires and plumbing and then you cover all of that up with drywall. You never see inside. You never see how it was built. Well here, it was as if it was almost built inside out. You could see the whole process. You could imagine how the structure was built can by can, bottle by bottle, inch by inch, and that was really fascinating. So part of…

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