Sandy High Auction

The Sandy High Music Foundation is holding a silent auction this weekend to raise money to get their kids to Carnegie Hall, as well as helping fund the yearly expenses of the Music Foundation.

The Auction is March 20th at 7:30pm, following the 6pm dinner.

I donated one of my Numberism prints to their auction. So go on down to Sandy High and bid on my print of The Butterfly Effect.

Good luck to Sandy High's music program!

March 20th, 2010
6:00pm - Dinner and Silent Auction
7:30pm Live Auction


Sandy High School

17100 Southeast Bluff Road

Sandy, OR 97055-9597

For Contributions contact:

Mr. McGlothin -- mcglotr@ortrail.k12.or.us
Mr. Scarth -- scarthb@ortrail.k12.or.us
or call 503-668-8011

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SWAN Day

I will be presenting some of my new numberism work at the SWAN Day event this March, along with a small group of Oregon based female artists.

SWAN Day, or Support Woman Artists Now Day focuses on supporting female artists at a grassroots level. This event is showing at the Better Living Show at the Portland Expo Center.

You can read more about the show HERE


Description:

A weekend of visual art, music, film, writing, crafts and performing arts kicks off Saturday, March 27th at 12:00 pm at the Portland Expo Center with a performance by local singing favorites, Jenni and Amanda Price of Acoustic Minds. This two-day showcase features over 50 area female artists: visual artists, filmmakers, writers, comedians, musicians and community organizations such as Siren Nation, POW Fest, Women in Film (WIF) and pdxcreativeXchange that support Women in the Arts. Admission is free and it is open to all ages. This event is co-located with the Energy Trust Better Living Show.

SWAN Day

(Support Women Artists Now Day)

Saturday and Sunday, March 27 & 28, 2010

Exhibit and Performance Showcase: Noon - 5:00 pm

Connector Hall, Between E and D Hall

Portland EXPO Center

2060 N Marine Drive
Portland, OR 97217

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Endless

There will never be enough time. I will never be fulfilled. My desires will never be sated. I know this, and it terrifies me and it fuels me. How can we possibly be satisfied with this life? It is so short.

I know that at some point, I will die, and most likely, my last thought will be of regret, because I can never be satisfied. It will never be enough. I want a hundred lifetimes, a hudnred thousand lifetimes. I want it to never end. It's so cruel to know how precious this is, how rare, and unlikely our lives here on planet Earth are and to know just how limited it is. To know that it will all end far before we can know what it is we will be missing.

And we fill it, we fill it with insecurity and doubt and useless things that waste our lives, mislead them down unimportant paths. I want so much more.

OH to give me immortality. There is nothing more I want than that. There is nothing more to have. To never die. I wish I believed there was something else, because knowing this is it, knowing there is nothing else is the worst feeling. It is so cruel. It is unfair, and to know what you will be losing, without the ability to change it is so unjust. God!... if only I believed in one!

This is not enough! I am a quarter through an average lifetime and I'm nowhere near a quarter full.

At any point, our fragile lives can end. A crash, lightning, an earthquake, deep vein thrombosis, and it's all over. That's all she wrote, and we won' t even be there to miss it.

The five stages, right? I'm aleady in it. Stuck in disbelief, stuck in denial and bargaining. There must be a way around this, a way to live forever. I know what I'll be missing! It's all that I haven't yet experienced. All the people I could meet, all the things I could learn, all the days I could etch into my human mind. There is so much and I want to fill every ounce of me with it, but doesn't this world know that there is more room in me than just one life can fill?!!?!?!?!?

I will give and give and give all that this world, this universe needs, to keep me alive. I will sacrafice, and love, and adore, and comit to life on this planet, and I will be magnificent, if only I can do it forever!! If only I had the chance. If only we had the opportunity to live life to it's fullest, to live without end. If only there wasn't a limit to life here on this planet, with these ambiguous people and our ambigous lives. If only we had time to experience all of it. I would drink every moment fully and be drunk on the endlessness of it.

Springing Forth

Tab and I have been going to PCC Sylvania for the past couple of weeks, doing our usual thing. We've had a warm reception there and I think we'll be making more of a habit of going. This week, we are coming back for Tuesday - Thursday from about 10am - 4pm.

The really big news is that Saturday Market comes back this weekend! Boy have we missed it. We're currently preparing for the big comeback, and I hope to have prints up of my new work. The originals are in our gallery, which we will be reopening with a big to-do soon enough.

March is here and Portland is soon to come alive again with those art walks and events we love so much. The weather has been amazing (yay for early spring!) and I think all the early blossoming has inspired me a bit. I have been painting recently with bright, vibrant colors. Here is one that I'm working on now. I'm waiting for it to dry so I can finish it.



I've also just hung a good selection of my Numberism work at Boyd's Coffee house in the Eliot tower, including the "Transitional" fall tree set. This is really a selection of my favorite pieces on display, including larger prints "In the Embrace", "La Morte D'Ase" and "Gotham".



Other than all this, I've had a chance to take more time doing things I love lately. I went sailing with a couple friends the other week, took a drive up to the Oregon coast just yesterday, I am studying German with a friend, and I'm enjoying stealing trade secrets from my chef friend whose specialty just happens to be Asian cuisine. With a few tips, a couple new tools and a trip to Fu Bon, I'm nearly jumping around the house with joy. All that food I missed so much from China, I'm now learning how to make myself. Thank you, Kenna.

All of these things are made possible by the wonderful people I've found here in Portland. :) Big smiles, and eager hands. Time to work, and time to play!

299792458

I've been feeling a little low lately. Generally if I don't get to work, I go a little nuts. If I don't get to draw, I get worse. Apparently, if I don't get to draw numberism for too long... well you can probably tell when talking to me that it's been too long.

I have a handful of ideas/plans I am working on or planning to work on that are sitting in front of me. I haven't quite decided how I'm going to attack them or in which order. So, stuck in a stalemate of artistic frustration, I needed an outlet. I needed the calm of numberism. I needed to key in and have nothing in the world exist besides numbers; gloriously simple, reliable numbers.

I don't draw fire or elementals nearly enough, so I decided to draw a candle. This is drawn with the number 299792458, which is the speed of light.

299792458 m/s

I am enjoying it and I can start to feel my mind center, finding clarity in the busy mess my mind has made for me to sift through. I hadn't realized just how helpful numberism is to me. I set up all the trouble in the world, and it knocks it down. Against the madness I am capable of creating, numberism consistently finds a way to quiet the storm. I don't know where I'd be without it.


This is one of those ideas I mentioned before. One of the many. Using formulas or equations to represent scientific theory through hopefully leading illustrations of the numbers' context...

There are more ideas.

One has to do with music... another with literature.... another with anatomy.... another with transportation.... another with time... time time time.....

I couldn't begin to assume which one will win out in the end, and I'm beginning to think that I will end up working on more than one...

The Pink Show

The Splendorporium is having a Valentines Day Art Show this Friday from 7- 9 pm. They have chosen to show 4 or 5 of my love inspired numberism pieces along with their wide array of lovely Portland artists.

I will be there, scoping out the local art and probably giving into my secret desire for Voodoo donuts, which will also be there in their big pink truck.





The Info:

February 5th 7 - 9 pm

3421 SE 21st ave (2 blocks South of Powell)
Portland, Or 97202

Wear pink!

Crafty Art

This past week or so, everyone here at our little gallery has been working on crafty items with our artwork.

We started by taking a trip to the Rebuilding Center and Scrap, which is another non for profit which sells used art supplies for pennies on the dollar. We found a lot more items and ideas then I expected, and then we started crafting all over the place... There are many more crafty items that we've been working on, but here's a few to give you a peek before they're all available. (Some are available on etsy now).




First, here are a few of the necklaces we made. Most of them are made using ceramic tile and images from our artwork. One of them is under glass, which I'm very happy with and plan on making more of just as soon as I get a handle on the whole cutting glass thing. The edge is lined with twisted metal which came out much prettier than I anticipated.





I wasn't sure how these would come out, as generally I haven't focused much on mixed media or crafts (I'm always using a pencil or brush), but I think the fact that I keep wearing them is a good sign that it went well.

You can see them at my Etsy store at www.SiennaMorris.Etsy.com

We also made "hangable art" from tile as well, like these. They are all about 3 or 4 inches and ended up showing off the numberism detail as well as the color depth of Tab's pieces quite well.





And fun little extras like magnets and key chains. Doc keeps eying the key chains. I think I'll have to let him keep one of them...




So that's a peek for now. The whole crafting thing is much more enjoyable then I thought. It's very relaxing and low stress. I can sit down and make a few necklaces while I'm taking a break from working/drawing (I don't like being idle for too long... it's a bad scene).

Anyway, I think I'll keep this up, so if you have any requests that you want to see on necklaces, or something else you have in mind, the feedback is welcome.

I'm sure most of these will be available on my Etsy account soon enough. In fact, I might make a new one just for our crafty side.