TA-DA!!!!!!
Exit
Kick-ass echoing drum-line
BFA
3.91 GPA
General Fine Arts Major - Exemplary Student Award
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OK ... on to the next phase.
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One more thing ...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Thesis: Installation in Action
Friday work-break ...
in my thesis installation
Axon of Repose ...
relieving stress ...
spacing ...
and letting it all out.
Dad & Deann in town checkin it out.
MFA candidate Miz Shawn taken a breather.
A site observed
on the side of the REI building
in NW Portland.
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chill ...
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Saturday, May 10, 2014
Thesis Studio: Axon of Repose—Final Documentation
Axon of Repose
26ft. high
8ft. wide
6ft. deep
connects from ceiling to floor
via hidden eye-hooks
entwined with the architecture
approx. 8k ft. of rebar tie wire
10 yards of tarlatan
all built by my two-hands
possibly 600 hours of studio time
cushion made of:
repurposed RV cushions
duct tape
my old sleeping bag
my old bed comforter
Ikea king-size sheets
RV cushions cut with
an electric bread knife
encaustic fabric made from ... my imagination
Ikea netting window panels
glued to
white tissue paper
painted with
beeswax
stained with
ink
view looking up
while laying inside
on the insanely comfortable
cushion
This project is complete.
So many more to go.
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I am in love with this band ... this week ...
Thesis Writing: Final Placement—Thesis-free
The final walk.
The final reach.
The final placement.
Walking away.
Deluge at Multnomah Falls, OR
Drive by.
Stevenson, WA,
looking NE,
over the Columbia River.
Stevenson, WA,
looking SW,
sans rain.
Thesis-free option 1:
sit on Bob's Beach,
breathe,
stare,
grin.
Thesis-free option 2:
sit in front yard in speckled sun,
read for pleasure (whaaaaat?!?!?!) ...
Volume One of Anais Nin's Diaries,
with a cup of tea
in the grass weeds.
Thesis-free option 3:
walk around the house,
take photos of
insignificant things.
(like teeny-tiny ceramic mugs in
a very dirty 1949 casement windowsill
of the laundry-room).
Portrait of a crazed artist
trying diligently to
move gracefully
through the chaos.
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meditative and mesmerizing (can they be the same thing?) ...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Thesis Writing: It's about that time.
I'm done.
I've sat in this chair for far too many hours.
I've thought of a thousand things to sketch,
coat in encaustic wax,
and wrap rusted wire around.
The things I don't have time for.
I've sung (terribly & loudly) to too many Pandora stations.
I've forgotten how to breathe.
The kind of breath that
reassures the mind and body that everything is OK.
My legs have tingled and gone numb.
So what's left?
A final proof.
Submit by Thursday by 5pm.
Photo documentation this weekend.
Create my digital portfolio.
Wait to hear pass or fix or fail.
Upload portfolio and thesis paper
into PNCA's database.
Graduation rehearsal.
Graduation.
BFA Exhibition opening reception.
Then really, really ... breathe.
Now I'm not really done after all
am I?
Bridge of the Gods
over the Columbia River.
I cross it twice each day.
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a chic on a cello
+ a stand up bass
+ a Brit-kid singing his heart out
= I could listen to it
all
day
long...
a chic on a cello
+ a stand up bass
+ a Brit-kid singing his heart out
= I could listen to it
all
day
long...
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Thesis: Studio Fin & Writing Finalé - wizzin by
Tweaking a thesis defense
on I-84,
the Columbia Gorge wizzin by.
Focus week
PNCA happenings.
Calm.
My Data Coding Queen sister's
observational portrait of me.
A sweet distraction while defending.
Inside my installation...
my lovely peers.
And there ya have it.
Thesis Oral Defense successfully complete.
So I was clear to...
spend the weekend
formatting my thesis paper.
Almost...almost.
Thirty-years ago.
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Without art,
the crudeness of reality
would make the world
unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw -
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