I really like this:
Thanks to PORT for the info:
Bethany Hays presents I Am a Containerful of Memories at PSU’s Autzen Gallery: “These domestic landscapes present a record of human activity and speak to the importance of everyday routine… The viewer is asked to consider the fictional nature of memory, which like the bronzing of baby shoes, distorts experience in an attempt to preserve it.” Exhibition runs August 3 – 14, 2009.
Matt Davis is mostly a writer, photographer, editor, publisher, entrepreneur and communications professional. In the renaissance tradition he occasionally also turns his hand to sewing, acting, poetry, filmmaking and so on. But when he dies, he would like to be judged solely on the quality of the relationships he enjoyed throughout the course of his life with other people. Because he feels, in the end, that those are the only point in being alive to do anything.
The emperor’s clothes are displayed in full disarray at this show annually. It’s one of the few regular arts events I don’t miss. If you get past the cringworthy trust fund kids and the everpresent anime kids who should have gone to Arts Institute or IPRC, there is always someone who stands out.
Last year there was an amazing montage / collage made from hundreds of letters from, I think, the brother of the artist, who is locked up somewhere.
Perhaps more embarrassing is the explanations the various adults place on the crap while cashing the checks. These humans are a burden to society.
Let’s go!
Once again, giving thousands of talentless Portland hipsters something to strive toward.