magical, native, and natural "other"

Native Americans are still the magical other, yet most people understand that blackface is fucked up and offensive. It's strange how understanding is only extended to certain people(s). I guess it is about access to power and voice. Native Americans aren't given much time or attention. This type of stuff makes me sad. More of this set of photos, by Three Nails Photography, here. Also, I posted some related images of ill-advised school art projects a while ago, here.

I feel like I need to balance out this post a bit.

Edgar Heap of Birds - Beyond the Chief (sign, installed in Urbana, IL) March, 2009

Jimmie Durham - Pocahontas' Underwear (mixed media) 1985

Brian Jungen - Beer Cooler (cooler, beer cans) 2002

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"the apocalypse is coming, and SOON"

motivate

-Steve Roggenbuck

I'm better, every day

fb and a few words from yesterday

installed Symbiosis, and exhibition of work by Toni Ross in the Whitaker Gallery yesterday at Hood College. my first install there, i'm happy with it (some photos later)

 from the Hood College Art and Archeology Department fb group

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LEGACY
Bequest
cut his teeth
(monster walks)
#walkingdead

new "Abracadabra"

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hydrogen peroxide
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hydrogen pero
hydrogen per
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500 Letters

My statement, via 500 Letters

Adam Farcus

Adam Farcus (°1983, Morris, United States) makes sculptures and conceptual artworks. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Farcus presents everyday objects as well as references to texts, painting and architecture. Pompous writings and Utopian constructivist designs are juxtaposed with trivial objects. Categories are subtly reversed.
His sculptures appear as dreamlike images in which fiction and reality meet, well-known tropes merge, meanings shift, past and present fuse. Time and memory always play a key role. With the use of appropriated materials which are borrowed from a day-to-day context, he often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By applying a poetic and often metaphorical language, he wants to amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating compositions or settings that generate tranquil poetic images that leave traces and balances on the edge of recognition and alienation.
He creates situations in which everyday objects are altered or detached from their natural function. By applying specific combinations and certain manipulations, different functions and/or contexts are created. Adam Farcus currently lives and works in Baltimore.

Sandy talisman

In Far Rockaway, Terrence Nottingham, 32, spoke of the Boardwalk as a kind of talisman. 

“If I’m ever going through something or feeling a certain way, I can come to the Boardwalk and it’s very serene,” he said. “I just look out at the water and I can just clear my head and think about how to help myself.” 

“I just hope that they hurry up and build another one, like this one but make it stronger,” he added. 

 -Where Boardwalks Beckoned, a Way of Life Lies in Splinters. New York Times. Nov. 8, 2012.

all of these, and more can be found and purchased at http://www.driftrelief.org/.

meanwhile, in my studio, i've been playing with 2 sticks that were left behind from Hurricane Ike and a jar of red clay-soot that was washed up when my backyard and basement flooded from Superstorm Sandy.