City Seen

Photograph by Kyle Johnson

Questions for Jean Sherrard, Photographer/Private Detective

What’s your job description? I take repeat photos for the “Washington Then and Now” column in The Seattle Times. Working from old photos, I triangulate the angle and coordinates of where that picture was taken, and take another one.

And the private investigator thing? When I was twenty-two, my uncle hired me to sit in a parking lot and look for a client’s husband. I sat for three weeks, but the guy never showed.

What’s one word people would never use to describe you? Neat. No one would be able to walk into my life and figure it out.

What photographers do you admire? Eugène Atget and Asahel Curtis — his photos are luminous.

Have you ever considered a different career? I like how artists really have no separation between life and work. When you’re an artist, a dilettante, an amateur in the sense of loving all different kinds of things, you never get used to a certain kind of life; you can always go back to eating out of dumpsters.

Thinking Men with Big Hair

Would you believe Bellevue could spawn a metal band that sold twenty million copies worldwide, shrieking at ear-bleed decibels, “You’ll die tonight at her shrine! The Queen of the Reich, yeah she’s coming for you”? Queensrÿche, born in 1981, did. “They were the thinking man’s heavy metal band,” says rock author Charles Cross. On April 16 at Snoqualmie Casino, the band kicks off a tour for their dozenth album, American Soldier, based on interviews with Iraq vets.

Artwork by Amy Spassov

Ladies Keep Up the PACE

Thirty local women committed to seeing the Performing Arts Center Eastside (PACE) open its doors in 2012 formed the Act Two Guild, which will host Silhouettes of Style, a fundraiser luncheon and fashion show hosted by the Bellevue Collection at the Westin Bellevue on April 3. Amy Spassov, guild member and proprietor of the Hallway Gallery in Bellevue, created an original piece to auction at the event.