Journeying rattles

 part art life part spiritual life here are the mid stages of the journeying rattles we are making. we have used a gluten free paper mache paste recipe due to celiac disease. the paste was used around small ballons that were then popped and it was filled with rice and home grown dried beans (the rice because it was in my pantry and i can't eat it soo bye bye rice.)

recipe as follows:
GF Papermache

1 part cornstarch 
ten parts water put in pot heat on medium til it boils 5 minds hold at boil stir and then turn off and let cool
this makes a wicked paste that is better then the traditional paper mache mix in my mind a little slimier but i like slimey...


  art and spirituality interweave on many levels and do so with this project.
hoping to help talula find her own spirituality and i myself feel more akin to the more shamanic activities of spiritual folk.
i believe my totem animals are birds of all sorts- it began with an eagle and has led to all of bird kind.
Talula wishes her totem animal to be a unicorn - i am sure we will have others as well, perchance a wolf or a dog.
i am hoping to work on these today and will update accordingly. and then i am sure i will have to work on us taking those journeys to the upper and lower worlds...
or maybe we just need to light a fire and dance round it shaking madly?
i am sure it will come when it is needed.

Talula sells first images to paper- skagit river journal

Talula got a photo and a mention in the Skagit River Journal
check it out!x

Lullaby Moon September 10th 2010

 Just mucking around in the past through electronic means - explorations in my external hard drives...
obsessively fun ..
not sure as much fun as looking through books of photos though.
here's an oldy from Lullaby Moon performance in Gas Works Park back in 2010.
as well as a  skyline from the evening.

rich art

Tuesday October 16th 2012 Ver[a]rt Gallery , Seattle Center

Come one come all -
reception on the 16th October 2012 from 6-8 pm come meet the artists and other  art enthusiasts  of all ages at the Vera Gallery.
The October showcase hangs til the end of , you guessed it OCTOBER so get on down and support three local artists who manage to present very different perspectives which intertwine in the most beautiful ways.
Thank you for your support.

Penguins from the Past circa 2003

this is the process of making my jackass penguin who live some time in an erotic bookshop in wales....
yes and i think he liked it as well.go figure a penguin into human erotica?
well i never.
this is his beginning  in haverhill - yes where the pigs came into play as well penguins rose to live out there day...
he is a proportionally accurate jackass and he now lives above my fireplace a little less black and white then he used to be- as both colours fade to a grey in between the polarities of black and white.

Pigs in Zen

For awhile tim and  i lived in my sister in laws home- before she was my sister in law, in a place called haverhill.
her favorite animal , her mascot lets say is/was the pig.
for that time life had seemed to suddenly become pigcentric.
we visited piglets at a local farm, made pig masks and photographed them and then become utterly obsessed with this abandoned pig farm...

October Showcase , Ver[a] rt Gallery, Seattle

October has arrived , or nearly arrived not to wish anyone's time away. Come down to the Seattle Center and check out three fantastic Seattle artists;
Joan E Bowers, Emily Joseph, Thendara Kida- Gee.

Particles on the Wall- Press Release!

If you are in Eastern Washington - come check out this show - a multimedia display of work based around Nuclear energy, Hanford more specifically.

"GrandFather Cuts Loose the Ponies" I-90, wa

View looking towards I-90 from Parking lot for Ponies

Fantastic!
wild horses on I-90
past Ellensburg.
 Had not come across these previous. You can walk up to the ridge they are located on - but we had destinations it was 96 degrees F and it was a dry climb, driving still plenty.
so we saw them from the bottom - watched the people move around them.
These were created by David Govedare.