The Driftwood Players are pleased to present the work of Bob Sears in the Wade James Theatre lobby.

"Take a look around." Bob Sears not only took a look, he took a picture - in fact his pictures are montages of snapshots that form panoramas. Usually when you take a picture it's what's in front of the camera that's recorded - but not what's behind. Mr. Sears uses himself as a tripod, swiveling as he shoots up to 24 frames to create a 360º panorama with his conventional 35mm camera. The panoramas can take from 2 minutes to two hours to record.

He thinks of each of his panoramas as documents of the life of a particular place at a particular time. "The important thing," he says, "was people being an integral part." Often one person will appear twice because he or she moved from one frame to another. The pictures are exceptional time capsules. Sears likes to point out that someone fifty years from now will know exactly, for example, what a part of Seattle looked like in September of 2004. So look around.

Bob Sears lives in Edmonds, WA