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If you pay attention to one thing for long enough, the whole world reveals itself in relation to it. For Hank Pitcher, that thing is a thirty-four mile stretch of California that extends from his studio at Coal Oil Point to Point Conception. At the end of the Gaviota coast, the deep waters of the Santa Barbara channel join with the vastness of the Pacific ocean. The north-south axis of the California coastline turns east-west. The climate changes to a Mediterranean one. The culture leans SoCal. The plenitude of flora and fauna explodes. Here, he finds the mythic in the minute. From out on the …