www.montereycountyweekly.com november 23-29, 2023 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY 27 ject. A portrait of Lutheran minister, councilor and president of the Cypress Institute John Frykman, for example, shows the man with one leg in a metal garbage can, the other foot resting on its rim—an homage, Fuess explains, to Gestalt founder Fritz Perls’ novel In and Out the Garbage Pail. “He was in for the game,” Fuess says. “Full of life.” Fuess’ camera of choice was a Nikon 35 mm, or a Pentax 6x7. He developed and printed all his own work. “I shoot from the hip,” Fuess says, of his technique as a photographer. “I’m a quick photographer.” (His writing technique was similarly spontaneous— after an interview, he recalls, he’d type up all his notes, then end his work day. That night he’d dream, he says, and wake up with the first sentence of the story-to-come in mind.) After the Pine Cone, Fuess became a staff writer for Health and Consciousness magazine and then, in 1980, an arts editor at Monterey Life Magazine. In 1983, he became co-editor of Community Spirit Magazine. (All of these publications have since ceased to be printed.) Today, however, Fuess is primarily known not as a local journalist and photographer, but for the direction his Eve Tartar Brown was a Brooklyn-born artist who moved to Carmel Valley in the 1960s. She created sculptures and a collage technique that involved cutting and assembling many tiny pieces of paper. Her work can be found in many collections on the Monterey Peninsula—including that of the Monterey Museum of Art. She died in 2000. “She was a force of nature,” Fuess says. Don Wobber lived in Pacific Grove and was known as a masterful jade sculptor—ranked “among the best of the world’s contemporary jade sculptors” by National Geographic in 1987. He was also a marine biologist and a poet. “He was a real serious scholar of the ocean,” Fuess says. “Wobber’s sculptures are gorgeous, tactile creations that resemble miles of cold green ocean compressed into a few feet, or even a few inches,” a Weekly article from 2013 reads. “They are impossible to keep your hands off.” Jake Stock was a member of the Monterey Stock family, and of the family band called the Abalone Stompers. “They always had fun playing,” Fuess says, of the jazz/soul group. Fuess took this photo of Stock at the Big Sur River Inn.
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