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Artist finds inspiration in monster

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Frankenstein’s infamous monster inspired Kristopher Layman’s art. The 21-year-old Baker City man scattered 85 of his individually numbered pieces, 65 in Baker City and 20 in La Grande, leaving them, he said, for anybody to find. (Baker City Herald/Russell Vineyard)
The image is reflective of another era.

An image of terror and bone-chilling fear from the 1930s.

Frankenstein’s monster.

Boris Karloff’s square forehead was scarred and rugged, a bolt through his neck, his eyes like a doll’s — lifeless and horrifying. 

The character, as envisioned by the Universal Studios special effects artists in the 1930s, was cumbersome, pieced together with leftover body parts held together with surgical wire.

Not much of a role model.

However, those dark images are exactly the reason Kristopher Layman thinks of the monster as more than a creature created to frighten.

“He wasn’t made perfect,” he said.

But perfect for Layman’s artistic vision.

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Steve Ellis accepts BLM job in Idaho

Steve Ellis is leaving Baker City after six years as supervisor of the Wallowa-Whitman Forest.

Ellis is returning to the federal agency for which he’s worked for the majority of his 31-year federal career: the Bureau of Land Management.

Ellis has been hired as BLM’s Idaho state director.

He starts his new job Oct. 11.

The Idaho state office is in Boise.

“I’ve had a wonderful experience on the Wallowa-Whitman,” Ellis said. “I will miss all the people in the community I have worked with. I am looking forward to new challenges in Idaho.”

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