chicken

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girls at play

four female artists who represent a new movement in japanese art
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november 1 - 30
reception november 1st @7pm

compound gallery
107 nw 5th avenue
portland, oregon

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one of the drawings i did for the “girls at play” show at compound gallery in portland.

i mean, this drawing…

“shi- shimatta…” (oops…)

“sayonara.”

this is a pala-pala (flipbook) type story that i drew on yellow post-it notes. i felt so embarassed when i realized this, i had to throw my emotion out somewhere.

i’ve been working on a set of drawings for my part of the group show coming up at compound gallery next month. several of them featured roosters. once i realized this, i stopped drawing roosters and started drawing other things, like a heart with legs sitting on a bench and a boy with breasts for his eyes sewing the head back on to a trout.

i’ll put those drawings up here over the next couple weeks. even the ones with roosters.

these days, i’m thinking a lot about what’s inside my egg…

i started drawing this one last night and finished it this morning. i really enjoyed drawing the dots on the egg and the comb. they add the kind of creepy texture i like…

this chicken is a barred plymouth rock rooster. his face looks like an eagle. i like his black lines. i found a photo of this chicken in a library book, which is full of incredibly ugly chickens. some of the chicken have really ugly combs that look like tumors. i’m so glad i wasn’t born to be a chicken.

this is my second drawing for the women’s art festival (here is the first one).

:: women’s art festival visual art exhibition::
(march 2nd - march 30th)
openeing on march 9th, 2007

mendel art gallery
950 spadina crescent east saskatoon,

this is me sitting on my precious egg…

good news! i’ve been accepted to be in the women’s art festival this year in saskatoon. the visual arts exhibition will be on from march 2nd to 30th at the mendel art gallery auditorium, with the opening on march 9th. i’ll be in the “established artists” section. last year, i was in their “emerging artists” group, so i guess i’ve emerged now.

i only found out yesterday that they need two drawings from me for the festival by march 1st (day after tomorrow). i was planning to do new drawings, instead of using my previous work. most of my favorite drawings are already being used for another show that i have coming up. so now i’m working quickly.

i was hoping to draw something last night, but i went to attend the saskatoon city council meeting to support the mendel art gallery’s planned expansion. the meeting lasted longer than i expected - i was there until 11pm. by the time i got home, i was too sleepy and hungry to draw.

even though i couldn’t draw last night, i was drawing in my mind during the meeting. i knew i wanted to do something with an egg, and maybe a chicken, so i went to the library this morning to get some children’s books about chickens.

for some reason, i drew chickens at this time last year, including my drawing “chicken breasts” for the 2006 women’s art festival. that chicken is wearing breasts because the festival was doing an art bra contest, and this was my version:

if you’re going to be in saskatoon in march, i hope you can come to the exhibit! i just have to go do one more drawing by tomorrow…

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this is the other drawing for the women’s art festival.

-i want my head back….