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	<title>Across the Waters</title>
	<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com</link>
	<description>by David Jay Spyker</description>
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		<title>Website Redesign and Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A long overdue redesign of my art website is now complete. A suite of new navigation options let you can customize what you want to see. Some newer work has also been added, and more is on the way. Any links you had to the old website (other than the front page) will need to be updated. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2010/05/22/website-redesign-and-update/</link>
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		<title>24th West Michigan Regional Competition in Lowell, MI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new painting, &#8220;Twilight in the Wood&#8221;, is on display at the Lowell Area Arts Council as part of the 24th West Michigan Regional Competition. This year&#8217;s juror was artist Armin Mersmann who is known for his masterfully rendered, highly detailed large-scale drawings. He chose an excellent selection of representational works for the exhibition. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2010/03/17/24th-west-michigan-regional-competition-in-lowell-mi/</link>
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		<title>Three Paintings at Carnegie Center for the Arts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again, and each year I express my fondness for the Carnegie Center for the Arts and the annual regional art competition held there. This year I am pleased to show three paintings at the competition, and I do hope you will visit the exhibition. The opening reception is always well [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2010/01/12/three-paintings-at-carnegie-center-for-the-arts/</link>
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		<title>A Waterfall Study, Acrylics On Paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been using Golden Paints&#8217; Open Acrylics line of paints now for a while, and because of the extended working, or &#8220;open&#8221; time of the product, I thought I would try them on paper in a watercolor style. The finished piece is a nice little interpretation of Niagara Falls. The bulk of the painting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2010/01/06/a-waterfall-study-acrylics-on-paper/</link>
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		<title>A Poem For The Longest Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Turning This first Winter night, The dance eternal, In elegant circuit Our Mother turns Away from the dark&#8230; Face to the light. ~ David Jay Spyker]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2009/12/21/the-turning/</link>
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		<title>Again and Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Again and Again I am the Lake. I am the River. I am the Rain. I am Again, And again&#8230; And again. ~  David Jay Spyker]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2009/10/24/again-and-again/</link>
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		<title>28th Michigan Artists Competiton at the Art Center of Battle Creek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent painting, &#8220;The Journey&#8221; will be displayed at this year&#8217;s Michigan Artists Competition at the Art Center of Battle Creek. Should you wish to attend, the group exhibition opens with a reception on October 4 from 2-4 p.m., and remains open to the public through October 24. For directions and contact information, please visit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2009/09/30/28th-michigan-artists-competiton-at-the-art-center-of-battle-creek/</link>
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		<title>August&#8217;s Arrival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[August&#8217;s Arrival (Lughnasadh) Crash, Splash, Gasp. I taste the Lake midair (a taste of crystalline, aquamarine) As we wend onward (feet bared to velvet sand that shifts away) Between pebbled concrete, slippery rock, and tilted, rusted steel (our fingers touch, tangle now and again) Holding back Nature&#8217;s persistent, Indifferent Hand&#8230; &#8230;But only for so long. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2009/08/05/augusts-arrival/</link>
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		<title>Today It Is Summer Still</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today It Is Summer Still It is just a taste, Just a tingle upon the tongue, But still something I can lick from the air. It is something like a fleeting shadow, Like something seen from the corner of the eye At the edge of the woods under Harvest Moon - palpable, Yet, intangible all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2009/08/03/today-it-is-summer-still/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Vessels&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I started work on &#8220;Vessels&#8221; in 2006 not long after completing the painting &#8220;Flow&#8221;. After a few months I pulled it from the easel to store face-against-the-wall (sometimes you just need to do this with a particular painting), and it wound up staying there for all of 2007, and some of 2008 while I dealt [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.acrossthewaters.davidjayspyker.com/2009/04/13/vessels/</link>
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