In Seattle again for a few days before a hiking excursion in the North Cascades with my friend Amy, after that bus down to Reno to retrieve my bike and go to Burning Man, then back on up to Portland to resume "normal" life. Meaning finding a place to live again, a money-procuring position of some description, etc, and prepare for a showing of my art Last Thursday of September at Everyday Wine at 16th and NE Alberta.
I was hoping to have new paintings completed but may instead show a
combination of oil paintings and painted ceramicware peices.
Here in Seattle i'm working in collaboration with my friend Sung Kim on a project for a group show at Luscious Studio (321 3rd Ave S., 3rd floor) opening this Thursday.
Our piece involves an old length of rusty heavy cable, fraying in the middle, and a brass plumb-bob and line, also fraying. Hard to describe it well in words, has to do with tension and the perception of imminent release or destruction, or the juxtapostion of slow decay and sudden catastrophe. Or something like that.
Now let me tell you about a great old fashioned rock 'n roll show. I don't go to many noisy rock shows anymore, but last night Luscious Studio hosted Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Sound System, as well as The Arm (also from Olympia) and a band from Tuscon called the Osmoniks. I missed the Tuscon Band but The Arm was a fine young band worth watching out for again, and Dub Narcotic, oh goodness. I don't know of any musician with more sheer physical energy than Calvin Johnson. The whole thing was a joyfully exploding hootenany of clanging banging rock'n roll. Pretty impressive from a guy who could be described as an elder statesman.
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