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Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page A-31 Hoodsport woodworker makes ‘meticulous’ artwork By Kirk Boxleitner immaculate.” does it.” getting into trouble.” Day’s cabinet- kbox/e/tner@masoncounty. com Although Day has progressed from Although Day has diligently honed making, which saw him furnishing a professional cabinet-making to the his skills through the decades, he’s number of restaurants with high—end Ask Sunshine Creations Northwest creation of custom fine furniture over quick to credit his parents and his fixtures, took him to Bend, Oregon, gallery owner Coleen McLees to de- the course of his career and his per- wife with enabling him to pursue but he was Shelton-born and raised, scribe the art of Hoodsport woodwork- sonal pastimes, his artwork special- what’s become his passion. so when his father died of a heart er Phil Day and she’ll tell you they izes in lathe-turned pieces, assembled Born in 1954, Day noted the num- attack, he knew he needed to head come from a “meticulous” craftsman. from dozens to hundreds of individual ber of other members of his genera- home to Mason County to be there for “It’s just amazing,” McLees said of pieces of wood. tion who fell into drug experimen- his mother: ' Day’s work, several pieces of which “One of his pieces that I have on tation and alcohol, but he said he Making money through custom he exhibits in her gallery. “You can display in my gallery consists of 685 believes the stable background his furniture work was slow-going for just look at it and tell it’s made by individual pieces of wood,” McLees parents provided him with and being Day, especially since he admitted his someone who takes pride in his work. said. “I’ve never seen woodwork like taught to direct his time and talents ................ WWW, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, __,, The quality of his wood finish is his before, and I don’t know how he to constructive ends “kept me from see ARTWORK, page A-33 IN THE , Jessica Brown Findlay, Alden Ehrenreich and Harry Lloyd are all struggling to inhabit a supposedly perfect society in “Brave New World” on NBC’s Peacock streaming service. Courtesy image ‘ ’Brave New World’ diverges from novel in fascinating ways BC’s Peacock streaming service rang haven’t actually read it, but before Orwell watched over by Big Brother. in the New Year by bringing back all published his novel in 1949, Aldous Huxley But “Brave New World” illustrates how nine seasons of “The Office,” which imagined a society almost exactly the oppo- meeting all of humanity’s material needs and I’m sure bodes well for its subscription num- site, but no less oppressive, in “Brave New creature comforts can be just as damaging to bers, but I was disappointed that it closed ' World,” published in 1932. - their development, especially in a rigidly so- out the previous year by canceling one of its “Nineteen Eighty~Four” has been adapted cially stratified society in which every citizen bolder experiments. to other media so many times that even is conditioned to be content with their roles. Ask most folks to think of a near-future those who haven’t read the book will visu- Peacock’s “Brave New World” marks only dystopia written in the early 20th century, alize its starkly Soviet surveillance state, the third official onscreen adaptation of and they’ll name George Orwell’s “Nineteen with citizens whose drab uniforms, paucity mwm‘ d _ . % Eighty-Four,” even if (especially if) they of resources and never-ending wars are all see REVIEW; page A_32 your lOCMURUSTED , nu: EXPERTS FOR 25+ mas: Sh‘mk‘ Tired of On-Again, Off-Again School? Looking for quality and stability for your children?‘ - Exhaust: V HVAC émyrs. BRADLEY OAiRCOMPANY Q; - Alignment: TIRE 8: REPAIR °Repall~s 20 South First Street - Shelton. and in EU red Residentialx‘ Commercial smug" Shelton Valley Christian School g . ‘7‘. has in-person classes four days a . WW Service 24/ week. Openings available now. ' u inmi 4' ‘ Call 360-426-4198 for details. MONDAHMDAY 8:00 A.M._5:oo RM.