Chaos vs Order circa 2011

There are certain things I admire about order; the illusion of peace, the comfort of clean line, ease of movement.  And things I loathe:  denial of chaos, the shunning of nonlinear thought, confinement.  Have you seen the way most eyes are drawn to order, and do not process discordance?  Package it up, make it palatable, even if it's a lie.  Is it danger or salvation?

27 inches wide x 7 feet 4 inches high
mixed media

ARCHIVES

A N T I QUITY

This is it, the final vestige of the premise of the 2010 show. This may be the last entry for a while (although I will be updating archives regularly) as I work on the 2010/2011 showing and keep everything veiled until The Time.


12 inches wide x 8 inches deep x 30 inches high
mixed

She Says

Tamia My Love sends me words boiled into hard candy for breakfast every day. She said I should begin again, and I did, for her.

21 inches tall x 28 inches wide by 1/2 inch deep
canvas/aluminum/wood/paint/paper
DESTROYED

Penance

I am swayed by other thoughts on color other needs than mine. Other minds in light cast shadows into me. I cherish them but I will not let them possess me.

17 inches x 28 inches wide x 1/2 inch deep
aluminum/paint/canvas
DESTROYED

Thank You IGCA and staff for a great venue

The Result.

IGCA July Show Fellow Artists

KEL and Feral D

Elizabeth Eero Irving

ether rae

Sandra Klevin (not pictured)

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Pop Top

Boy that Schlitz tasted great back in the day. The days before micro brews and lattes, when coffee was coffee and beer was beer.

17 inches diameter

mixed

4th of July

Age casts shadows on her face like a delicate mantilla. The long hair that served her well in the 60's is streaked grey and her hippy ways have not faded with time. For miles she drags the remains of the holidays in bright yellow bags. Used diapers, shattered whiskey bottles, melted lawn chair parts.

17 inches diameter

mixed media

Slice # 2

Refer to Slice #1

7 feet 4 inches tall x 10 inches wide by 8 inches deep

Recycled aluminum, paper, paint, wood, etc.

Slice # 1 (DETAIL)

Broken fish baskets tower in my dreams they are the clouds of my consciousness and the space in between.

7 feet 4 inches tall x 10 inches wide by 8 inches deep

Recycled aluminum, paper, paint, wood, etc.

Objects # 1 & # 2 (DETAIL)

The man in the story knelt on the sand and as he dug he lost his need to be a lawyer and forgot what he had to do to be a man in this world. His friends thought he was crazy but as his found possessions accumulated and his wealth deteriorated his happiness grew.

Installation

3 feet wide x 7 feet tall (times 2)

Mixed Media

WAHAHA #2 (DETAIL)

If I wore a necklace hell a shirt of plastic bottle caps in different languages and strange symbols it would seem shocking and odd. But why not clothe myself in the shells of our need? Just as animal hides do, they contain the blood and bones of our society so why not parade around in them?

12 inches tall x 7.25 feet wide x 8 inches deep

Mixed Media with recycled wood and aluminum

Crush, A Love From The Past

Ah toxic sweet cracklings. Take a guess at how old this (real) can is.

10.75 inches tall x 6.5 inches diameter

Mixed Media with recycled aluminum, paper

Double Happiness

King Size
Filter Tip

4 " diameter
9 inches tall

Mixed Media with recycled aluminum, paper

Still Recognizable

When I am old through the wrinkles and the twitching eye will there still be glimpses of what I love about my youth?

17 inches diameter

The Button Boxes

Life cannot be documented without mentioning The Tins. The sewing machine would hum for hours, and the only thing better than a mother's attention were the battered landscaped tins brimming with leftover fasteners. Navy anchors, rhinestone baubles, glinting tin, pale pink corrugation, the pulse of the Singer as inevitable as losing a button.

11.5 inches diameter

Elderberry Veins

Inside an elderberry stem there is a styrofoam like core which hardens after days at sea into a substance to be scraped out and made into useful hollow things. This is not an elderberry stem; it is a piece of plastic, but its curves run parallel to that right angled shrub's.

15 inches diameter

Madonna and Child

This shell is well known for its flip side.

15 inches diameter

Potter's Field

Unnamed cartilage resides here. Midden dirt shrouds traces of departed hands that held these bones in theirs.

11.5 inches diameter

Wax Lipped Mama

Cracked at the edges her lipstick bleeds. When she blinks her lashes take a rest, a time out to sort themselves before keeping guard against the ravages of time, wind blowing through the trees, the glint of a bottle in the grass.

17 inches diameter

whirlybird

Abandoned paper parasols, used up spruce tip casings, barren candy wrappers, float in the sky like this aquatic marine bit, all destinations a mystery.

15 inches diameter

Free Good Home:

busted windows/cramped quarters/muddy/seaweed encrusted mobile homes - HERMIT CRABS ONLY. Previous owner deceased.

11.5 inches diameter

Again & Again & Again

Tell me one more time how a minute animal made that shell. Say it once more the potential of that irrelevant creature.

15 inches diameter

The Sensual Nature of Cauliflower

Run a hand over the rough surface, pressing its white ache with curious fingertips.

15 inches diameter

Jaunty Blue Styrofoam

Grandmother's hair. Blue rinse, devil may care, neon poly pantsuit, hip boots. Scrabble cheater, mistress of decree. Anti decomposition activist.

15 inches diameter

Encapsulation

Pills? Seed samples?

11.5 inches diameter

A Friend in Safety

Something made for fingers to slip into- a handle, a glove, the grasp of another, seems so basically personal, a sign that, as humans, we care for one another.

17 inches diameter

29911

.Jewel Beach 1981.
Absconding to the sound of a helicopter's roar on the runway above. Grasping at the detritus of the heroes of the Pacific. Green sometimes red sometimes blue jewels beckon small hands.

11.5 inches diameter

Out Of Commission

No fish blood left staining the handle, no gaff to hook agitated gills.

11.5 inches diameter

From Cottonwoods to Kelp Bed

From a distance, this golf ball looks whole. Close up, dents misshape it. From the sticky sweet aroma of the USCG golf course' cottonwood groves to my beach 40 miles away, what a hit that must have been.

17 inches diameter

Fragmentation and Camouflage

Buoy: A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, or indicate a navigational channel. (thefreedictionary.com)

11.5 inches diameter

The Door is Open

The unyielding thick plastic cows with their stiff legs, the barn gate that is never quite straight. Like the broken boat basket they refuse to hold the wild things inside.

15 inches diameter