Business

Studying landscapes and planning swirl together in a blessed dance.  These are among the art of August.  Winds Paradox strives to build an enterprise which accompanies the realities of our world, both in times of beauty and in those darkest moments....

Three styles of T-shirts begin the Winds Paradox clothing.  At $12, $15 and $22, these all cotton basics fit with any personal style.  100% of profits from the sales of these shirts are returned to the continuing renovation project of the Matthias Building....

Gallery 419 West.  In my mind's eye, the name and concept were planned, the timing scheduled.  I had devised a linear approach to its development.  But like the namesake of Winds Paradox, creation is spirited with its own logic, its own path and especially its...

Happy Fourth of July!! Twenty-eight years ago, during a business trip to New York City, a co-worker friend and I climbed those metal steps, up to the crown of the Statue of Liberty.  Waiting in line with us were these cherubs...

Piece by piece, the gallery is beginning to reflect the artistry of summertime in Wisconsin. Not more than four months ago, the winter of all winters blasted upon northcentral Wisconsin.  Ice storms.  Blizzards.  Three feet of snow....

May 19, 2019 Creating a business around a name like "Winds Paradox" challenged me, yet I could not imagine any other.  Originally "Winds & Paradox," I had always felt as though guided by spirit, by artistry or just an attempt at that quality.  I felt a...

Winds Paradox purchased the Esther Building in 2015.  Built in 1914 during the leather tanning heyday of the Merrill area, it had housed the Tomahawk Shoe Company in 1918.  The Hansen Glove Factory bought and converted the building for its northern operations from the 1940's...

The color "Chantilly", that is!  "The color of dawning sunshine filtered through slumbering trees;  of snow-kissed sighs of sunsets; of flickering bonfire kisses in arctic-like velvet darkness."  Art. People. Buildings. Business. Life and all that is dearest...