taking rides

pedestal for a daughter, etc

© Ron Mc Pherson

© Jeff D. Stark

© NY Mag


mirandajuly.com

the blackest black

11/11

photo © ty ennis

what's in a perfect name?

"all colors at once"

some die hard

whatever

"a small soul perhaps but burning brightly"

mali-bird and the heartbreakers

I used to build these buildings
I used to walk next to you
Their shadows tore us apart
And now we do what we do
Driven to the mountains high
Sunken in the cities deep
Livin' in our sleep.
--- Neil Young, Goin' Back

MAY JULIETTE BARRUEL
"AND NOW WE DO WHAT WE DO"

May Juliette Barruel's textile-based work and photography address themes of nostalgia, obsession, and loss in an intimate and often voyeuristic fashion. For this exhibition, Barruel investigates a variety of materials in order to reify her experience, and here her voice finds resonance in printed words and embroidered textiles, insofar as to use her own hair as thread.
These conceptual tapestries and text accompany Barruel's photographs to create "And Now We Do What We Do", a reflection on half a life of dating, falling, hoping, pining, loving, and obsessing with its fair share of drunken haircuts, romantic inspirations, ridiculously embarrassing behaviors, and hundreds of hours spent wallowing while listening to songs by Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Bill Callahan. The work is both catharsis and hypothesis, a searching for the existence of truth and love in an endlessly fragmented and often lost contemporary youth culture.

NOVEMBER 5 - 27, 2009
Preview and Artist Reception: Wednesday, November 4th, 8pm-10pm Public reception: Thursday, November 5th, 6pm-10pm On view Saturday, November 7th, 12pm-5pm, and by appointment.

IGLOO
NW 6th Ave and Everett #102
Portland, OR.
503.724.7300

Thank you for making this possible: Brad Adkins, Amy Bernstein, Ty Ennis, Emily Henderson, Igloo, Nathan Preston, Rikki Rothenberg, Paige Saez, and Laurel Simmons.

golden

good things to look forwards

the mornings

in the making and samsung

happy birthday maman

ALWAYS

AND FOREVER

THE BEST POSSIBLE MOTHER

11:11-5:55

the way he does

a team of winners

still the best

in the making: "no retreat, baby, no surrender"

mondays in the studio

my absolute favorite

random things i'm still thinking about

life

© orland nutt
and in the hot bath, now cold, i thought how even when everything is great it's still so fucking hard, only to realize that woolly had thought that before, and expressed it so beautifully. missing my ladies tonight.

in the making: fuck you bill callahan, pt 2

wanting

© thomas kinkade, anonymous, luc tuymans

in the making: well, of course i used to stalk you

in the making: lize

nobel controversy

your gold is giving me troubles!

mr ennis on opb's art beat

WATCH IT HERE.

in the making: the long voyage home

remember?

make (it) up

we were like tourists at the end of the world

fall feelings

painting mister washington

oh god. thank you.

ouest

© ty ennis

i take only what is mine lord

the road

Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.

- Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
- You forget some things, don't you?
- Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
--- Cormac McCarthy

brushstrokes/sunset 101

let us never come back

jen & kathleen

look at you shooting that rainbow

© ty ennis

this swift i love

stupid fucking boys/don't let them

painted hills and pink floyd

fossil beds and fleetwood mac