woot! such a fantastic concept and term i'm going to use right into the ground most likely...
in the spirit of sharing and caring, i thought i'd share visually some of the things that have been filling my time....
first off is my continuing new art project. i haven't figured out how to get access to some of my earlier works as they are trapped on my phone, but let me tell you a story of how this all began....
it was back in the troubled month of april, when things looked gloomy...the weather still sucked, i was still pretty heart broken, and my job situation was very obviously on the rocks...
my friend chewy and i were spending a lazy sunday biking around, when inspiration hit me and i pulled out a section of canvass i had laying around. we quickly decorated it with a crazy urban scene (chewy's doing) and a horse and forest (my doing) and snuck it into the bar across the street and hung it up.....then proceeded to ask people what it meant.
it was so fun that for the next week we decided to make dummies and sneak them in! it was great! i made a neat little man and chewy made this very load woman. it was a whole process, of sneaking them in, setting them up, then slowly moving them closer to the bar area (the place we were doing it at has this large out door patio....)
at one point in the night the two dummies were sitting at a table together and this girl lit chewy's dummies cig and gave mine a drink!!! chewy eventually got his up to the bar (where the bar tender proceeded to talk to it and give it a drink) and i got mine up to the dance floor!!
the next week we took some blow up balloon animals from the dollar tree and turned them into crazy creations.....this time however, we got caught and were instructed to not do it any more!! BOO.
anyway, i moved out of the place i was living in that was right there, so poop on them any way....
since then, we've been wanting to bring it back, but haven't found a new place to do it, but in the mean time, i've been killing time working on my new dummie...and a couple masks and a little horse (portland sidewalks have these horse hitching rings left over from the frontier days and its big here to attach a model horse to them, so i thought i'd one up everyone and make my own horse!!)
anyway- here's a photo of my newest dummie. her name is barbra and she dates billy grippo who is the east sides biggest producer in the real estate game. as you can see, she likes to stay up to date on the news...her and billy haven't seen each other in a while, but they're planning a big reunion soon. i'll let you know how that goes!
next, is a project that i haven't been working on quite as long, but has taken up a lot of my time. as you may or may not know, there is an awesome organization in portland called city repair. basically, it is a group of activists reclaiming public space and bringing communties together and helping to foster a ecological future for us all. well...in theory. don't get me wrong, the organization has done a lot of really amazing work, (including getting the portland city council to pass a regulation that allows neighborhoods to paint their intersections) but i feel like a lot of the drive has kinda left the movement...i personally think a lot of it has to do with the fact that one of the major instigators of the whole thing, mark lakman, is getting really burnt out and overwhelmed and frankly, there's not anyone else in the organization that is willing to put so much into it....
ANYWAY...way back in the day mark was this big shot architect and was working on a project in downtown pdx and was sitting in a meeting where they were discussing this toxic leak on one of the projects they were working on and they were all congratulating themselves for bribing the inspectors (i have delusions of erin brockvich here...digging up all that dirt and publicizing it.....one thing at a time though....) and he couldn't take it any more, and quit and went traveling....
well...he ended up with a mayan tribe down in central/south america and had some really amazing experiences, including being told about all these city repair site around portland before they happened...he was very overwhelmed and didn't understand how he could make it happen and they told him to just be himself....
one other really powerfull experience he had was one night sitting around in a circle this young man next to him started to do this elaborate dance (while sitting) with this butterfly....and eventually had the butterfly jump to mark's finger (he really tells this story better then me...)...
later, back in the states, while trying to figure out how to make all these sites happen, and well, change the world, mark came back to that butterfly and its traditional correlation to change and decided what needed to be done is to make a mobile tea house that has huge butterfly wings....
{there's kinda more to the story, but that's for another day}
anyway- that was the birth of the t-horse that for several years was a fixture in portland parks throughout the summer. overtime, energy died and it kinda fell off the radar, but we're bringing it back!!!
{and i have delusions of making it a cross-country mobile tea house....but that's for another day...}
so....with out further ado:
The T-Horse
that's all for now. i wish you all much peace and love.
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