Kaitlin Pirart, currently showing at Oso Negro, thick impasto acrylic flowers raised off wood panels.
Glossy, almost ceramic in appearance.
I like the technique.
Link: https://kpartistry.ca/
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And I saw this eating lunch at Mama Sita's in the Valley - curious little acrylic/watercolor (??) paintings of mushrooms.
For a bit I thought they were illustrations from a coloring book. Because the Valley. Nope. Anyways, they were interesting.
I was showing pictures of them to Chris and he was laughing, he wanted to buy the one of the mushrooms/planets/dinosaur climbing moonbeam. Because.
And I understand.
Anyways - you can find her work here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100057544416080&sk=photos
I think I'm going to make it a regular thing to start featuring some of the more obscure artists of the area, in a non-judgmental way, because there are hundreds, and some of their work is every bit as interesting or inspiring as that art that I admire. Just in a very different way...
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By the same producers as "ALONE" I was induced to watch this by a friend. (Note: Jason Bateman as Producer?)
Now - In the beginning I was loving this. 8 episodes - the premise is that 16 people - "survivalists" or "outdoors men" or "marines", standard solo people would be forced to form four teams (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta) - and the team that survived the longest would win $1,000,000.
The catch was they had to survive as a team.
Now - I've talked a lot before about "Alone" - which I loved - primarily because while it on the surface showed people "battling" nature - a curious way of describing our relation to it - the battle in the end was always with themselves. Nature - in most of the seasons I watched excepting the one set in Slave Lake - is abundant, and the climate and "perils" the contestants faced were somewhat exaggerated.
This is a different twist.
There is still the overpumping of the perils - the cold (It's on the coast of Alaska, and so while there's snow and below zero temperatures it's not -40), the bears (you need respect, not fear), etc.
What you soon realize is that most of the contestants have but little experience, that beards do not make a woodsman, and that the perils they faced are the merest fraction of what the early Victorian explorers went through - women and man, comparatively they have it ridiculously easy.
We are, as a race, and a society sadly declining.
Now, the read-more as there are spoilers ahead. You've been warned:
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Found this online this morning, and reminded me of a post I did a month or so ago....
Link: Nemo Gould - Click Bait
Which, you'll recall, resembles my own fancy somewhat: http://rodboyle.com/index.php/78-creative/3702-the-reddit-rat-trap
Anyways, another ship sailed...
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