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4 - Orono Weekly Times Wednesday, August 26, 2009 The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington Parallel World-Paintings by Ron Eccles September 6 to October 11, 2009 Opening on Sunday Sept. 13, 2 - 4 pm. Paintings by Ron Eccles explore parallel relationships between surface and primary structures. His work challenges the viewer as minimal planes of colour and shape are poised between physical and internal space. It is with a great deal of reflection on the history of vision, optics, geometry, colour and light that one begins to think about the paintings of Ron Eccles. Throughout his career as a painter and his transitions from representational to nonrepresentational work, Eccles contemplates the complexities of formal space. The two-dimensional surface allows for an open discourse with art history as this artist considers planes of incidence, figure and ground, vanishing points and how colour and light form into rays. The square, triangle and circle become animated fields in which to elaborate on, and experiment with colour, optics and a Gestalt of seeing. Ron Eccles has been a professional artist for the last 35 years, receiving numerous grants and awards. His work is in collections in Canada and the United States. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, the University of Guelph, with a Masters from the University of Iowa. He has taught at all three institutions. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The Visual Arts Centre is located at 143 Simpson Ave. Bowmanville. Directions: Hwy 401 to Liberty St. in Bowmanville; Liberty St. to Baseline, east on Baseline to Simpson Ave; north to Soper Creek Park. For further information, call 905-623-5831. American military was not defeated in Vietnam. The Americans did not lose a battle of any consequence, including Tet 68, which was a major defeat for the VC and the NVA. The battle was lost on the home front. The populace was tired of a war that produced 58,148 killed and 304,000 wounded out of the 2.59 million that served. They simply wanted to bring it all to an end. I worry about Washington staying the course in Afghanistan, leaving Canadians to once again hold the fort. The Canadian military has done us proud. They have filled a commitment that the majority of NATO countries took a pass on. 2011 is the time to pass the torch and bring them home. STOCKWELL Continued from page 2 wouldn`t work, because the war was already lost. Even the then senator from Illinois, Barrack Obama, mouthed the party line. Hence, the problem for President Barrack Obama, is that now the "good war" needs winning. If he stands by and sees Afghanistan spin out of control without doing something about it, he suffers a political body blow. At the same time, if he pours more American troops into Afghanistan and spills more American blood, his left-wing base will go bananas. It has all the makings of another Vietnam. In spite of all the media hype and the Hollywood productions to the contrary, the