New Life & Coleslaw

I gave new life

to an existing 

large-scale installation.

It seemed like the right thing to do

for I had shoved it into a

humiliating position

to store it safely until further notice.

Much like how life can

mosey along just fine

then abruptly shift direction.

Sure you adapt but

before you know it...

you've allowed some parts of yourself to be shoved into

an introverted space which renders you 

stagnant.

The piece was created to hang

in the middle of a gallery space,

viewable from all sides.

It has since been used as a studio curtain,

and then...

I shoved it into a ball in a shed full of spiders

(sad but true).

I've cut it from it's original

translucent covering

and stripped it of its rusted wire

and it now lives

as a wall hanging

as if it were a painting...

transformed from something it once was.

And then I made coleslaw...

while listening to this...

(several times... because I evidently like it THAT much)...

Perspective: PNCA 511 Handstand Tour Summer 2014

My alma mater & current employer,

 Pacific Northwest College of Art

(aka PNCA),

is in the process of creating an

enriching new space

that caps off the 

North Park Blocks

in Portland.

(above: the entry to the main corridor)

I took a hard hat tour, 

tucked the front of my shirt in,

and...

looked at things with a

different perspective

(thanks to the camera phone

photography skills

of coworker MB).

(above: the future executive meeting room)

I want more.

(above: ?? an office I can't remember)

Oregonian article

511 Federal Building quick wikipedia history

Remodel video

PNCA site info

perhaps this explains the want...

Thesis: Adapting to the Elements & Stirring the Soul

The sun showed up....

and nested...

inside, outside...

and mingled for a while.

It has charmed me with it's alteration

of texture and translucency...

in need of interaction.

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Stirring my soul...

Thesis Studio: En Plein Air & Bitchin Cellos

From the 2014 PNCA BFA Thesis Exhibition

to a nesting spot on the creek in my yard...

my thesis installation has a new 

place to exist.

I have the cushion and will

install it when the days of sunshine over power

the days of rain...perhaps mid July.

Its organic composition

seems right at home,

as if it were meant to be here.

It's been reunited with the 

lighting (fire hazard) I

originally purchased

for the interior of the piece

(note safe distance from filament bulbs).

The top, that once stretched 

up 26 ft. high and sprawled out 12 ft.,

now rests in a lateral position attached to

a neighboring tree.

I wrapped up two-thirds of that section 

into a bundle-like cocoon.

Transforming the work from gallery/studio space

to the two trees in the outdoors

proved to be a worth while effort.

It's been raining, and raining, and raining.

Nature has mingled 

with the tarlatan fabric and wire structure.

Rust immediately began to drip

and stain the fabric.

From the inside 

a patina has added an additional layer.

The entrance.

The internal view looking up is now closed off

as it once gave the viewer a portal to the ceiling it once

connected to.

It now crimps at the neck.

It was too heavy and cumbersome

to wrestle the top portion

up into the trees, as

it was originally designed to do.

But it works, 

yes I had an extra set of stronger muscles to help me.

It's a small maple branch but mighty strong.

I can't say it will exist here forever

but I'm looking forward to the

transformation of form and texture.

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my artist math equation...

Cello + AC/DC = F-N COOL ...

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Mostly Berlin: Handstands on Historical Monuments & Other Tidbits

Smart packing for PDX to Europe...

Amsterdam Schiphol connection to...

Berlin Tegel to...

Mögelin, East Germany

Tangermünde...

and artist Angelika Otto

Manufactum brot&butter in Berlin

Breakfast destination three days in a row

it was THAT good.

As we ate we had the pleasure of enjoying this 

large poster ad on a pillar.

I was told it says something like this...

Now in the summer

more often times naked

we drink this beer

got a problem with that?

Charlottenburg Tor

a Neo-Barouque style gate with Doric porticoes

erected in 1907 to collect tolls & octroi (taxes)

2014 (me) & 1945 (Candian soldiers)

with a bronze of King Frederick I of Prussia

(1701-1713 founder of Charlottenburg)

Prussia: included parts of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Belgium & the Czech Republic

A section of the Berlin wall on display in Berlin...

I can't remember exactly where.

There were applause during my 

"change of perspective" display.

Why? 

I'll never really know.

But soon after I was enjoying 

a salted caramel gelato 50 yards away

under an architectural glass ceiling

Michelangelo would be in awe of.

Every Berlin day ended here...

Schleusen Krug

bier garten in

Tiergarten.

I would never get tired of this.

My niece & I pondering our next location

from the German Classism columns of the now...

Neue Wache

It served as a guard house until the end of the monarchy in 1918.

Became a memorial for WWI and served other functions after being damaged in WW2.

It now houses a statue titled "Mother with dead son" by Kathe Kollwitz.

We totally should of been doing handstands. Ugh.

I'm not sure what this is, 

I saw several.

I'm curious.

This was found on the Bodestrasse bridge 

over the off-shoot of the Spree.

(could find no online images of Bansky connection)

And then I did this...

on the East Side Gallery

(what remains of the Berlin Wall)

The history of what happened in this area

is almost too much for me to comprehend

being physically in the space.

It's as if it were a fictional tale.

The wall was never very tall, 3.6m (12ft.).

As I strolled through the Tiergarten

I noticed I unintentionally

matched my youngest niece's stroller.

Insignificant in the grand scheme of things I know,

however...

 Upon discovering this

I felt I looked like I knew what I was doing

and that alone made me feel hip.

The Holocaust Memorial, Berlin.

Feeling disorientated

somewhat controlled

and closed in...

I thought it was best

to change my perspective.

Then my sister proceeds to inform me

that we are most likely Jewish via

our Lithuania Great grandparents

who fled during WWII to Chicago.

(hiding it from any legal record in the US)

(health history also backs this according to professionals)

Being raised Catholic (school n all)

I have to wonder is all of this relevant?

Really...

be a good person and pass that along

that elevates the potential that people could

have in changing the world for the better.

A drive by shot of some incredibly awesome yellow fish print pants 

and detailed menu display 

in East Berlin.

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Areas of Berlin reminded me of Portland, OR

This moment in Berlin in 2010 does as well...

Truffle Trip - I'm Needing Silly

A truffle trade for a hair cut...

Walked it down the mountain

from home to salon...

Stopped at my friend Rita's house...

Posed for a pic with the sign I made

for my truffle receiving friend

that hangs at the entrance...

And again with the

fancy chandelier...

To rest next on the glass table

hopefully not to be covered in

snips of hair.

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Glitz on the street.

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Lazy morning youtube surf...Lora Zombie LUV...