
Finally Found a Place, 2023
WHAT’S HALLOWEEN WITHOUT a little jolt of visual shock — something eerie, unanticipated, ghostly, maybe skeletal to scare up the seasonal spirits? As regular ArtsWatch readers know, photographer and writer K.B. Dixon has a way of discovering the unusual amid the ordinary, and recently, as he puts it, “I did some motivated meandering the other day and took a few shots for Halloween.”
Like pretty much every hamlet, town and city across the United States, Portland takes on a distinctly haunted air come late October. Grab your mask and maybe a trick-or-treat bag and follow along in Dixon’s footsteps as he gets the goods on the ghouls and celebrates the skills of the “ordinary,” if slightly skewed, citizens who assembled these masterworks of mayhem. You might notice that he and his camera include not an even dozen but eleven destinations on his tour of terror. That’s … odd. Which, on Halloween, seems just right.
— The Editors
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Pot of Skulls, 2023

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Crosses, 2023

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You’re Next, 2023

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Do Not Disturb, 2023

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James Yeast, 2023

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Three Witches, 2023

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Boo, 2023

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The Skeletones, 2023

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Rest in Pieces, 2023

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Skeleton on Horseback, 2023

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