Article: William Dunlap: What a Find! Artist Breaks Old Ground With His Archaeological Constructionsel 755

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If something on the ground has ever caught your eye -- a feather, a chunk of a fallen wasp's nest, an old coin, a railroad spike -- and you picked it up, you'll immediately understand a good part of artist William Dunlap's work.

"I'm still that 9-year-old kid who goes to school with arrowheads and marbles in his pocket," says Dunlap in the accent of deep Mississippi, where he was born 52 years ago. "My ancestors were part of that great Scottish and Irish invasion of Mississippi in the early 1800s where they fought and fornicated with the Indians. Growing up down there we'd find arrowheads and pottery shards, and I was always aware that there had been other civilizations on ...

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