Plush Mills is filled with stylish, carefully-chosen art. No piece is repeated anywhere in the building. Recently, a very special original piece of art was added to our second floor library and game room - this scene of the Grand Canyon. And it was created by Gunnar Plake. He is not only a well-known Western artist whose work is exhibited in Santa Fe, he is also one of the founders of Plush Mills. Here is a snippet of an interview with Gunnar Plake conducted by San Francisco Bay Area writer Maria Porges in August 2008: Maria Porges: The most unique aspect of your photographs is the first thing we notice: they portray a state of motion. How did you develop your distinctive technique? Gunnar Plake: It started in the darkroom. At 25 I taught myself how to develop and print pictures and was fascinated by the portions of inadvertent blur. My curiosity led to experimentation, photographing objects in motion. Eventually my style evolved to what you see today - the stroke of my camera on still subjects - which maximizes creative control of the image. Maria Porges: Could you talk about the relationship of time to your work as a photographer? Gunnar Plake: I have spent my life obsessed with the passage of time. As a child I felt I had to concentrate and work that much harder just to keep up so time was always at a premium. Moving the camera during exposure allows me to include more information, more time, in the image than can be captured when the camera is still. Most photography emphasizes a moment frozen in time, which is not my experience in seeing. I capture time itself.