In our September issue, we were doing a piece about life imitating art, and in particular, Andrew Wyeth’s art. Wyeth used the Olson House for inspiration for quite a few of his paintings. We had sent our photographer to try and match some of the paintings that he made with her photographs. While doing all of this research into who owned the rights to specific paintings and how we were going to in touch with them, the Associate Publisher showed me a previous article that had to do with Andrew Wyeth–the Christina parodies titled “It’s Christina’s World… We Just Live in It.”
After looking through the article and searching for more online, I thought to myself, why can’t I do one? So over the next few days I worked on a few variations. My ideas ranged from a chocolate bar taking over the house in the distance to a herd of unicorns. The one that ended up in the magazine I titled ‘Christina’s Hollywood.’ Another one, ‘Christina’s Dragon,’ I’ve posted with this blog entry.
As an intern at Portland Magazine, there are often opportunities to be taken–you’ve just got to take them! You’ve got to say, “Hey, I can do this,” and then actually do it. I think that is pretty cool myself.
— Ariel Martin