Thendara's Blog

The odds and ends in the creative  world of Thendara M Kida-Gee.

Shadowplay in a barn

Shadowplay in a barn with a roof who has seen better days.

The light fantastic casting shadows on the grainy detail of the floor.

The patterns remind me of cityscapes and they make me want to listen to shadowplay by Joy Division.  maybe you should too? Music has always been such a great inspiration for my own visual practice.

To the center of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you
To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank, searching for you
I was moving through the silence without motion, waiting for you
In a room with a window in the corner I found truth

In the shadow play, acting out your own death, knowing no more
As the assassins all grouped in four lines, dancing on the floor
And with cold steel, odor on their bodies mad a move to connect
But I could only stare in disbelief as the crowds all left

I did everything, everything I wanted to
I let them use you, for their own ends
To the center of the city in the night, waiting for you
To the center of the city in the night, waiting for you

-Joy Division

(CURTIS, IAN KEVIN / HOOK, PETER / MORRIS, STEPHEN PAUL DAVID / SUMNER, BERNARD)

 

Tumbleweed Racing

Just after visiting the Palouse Falls we found a quiet spot appropriate for tumbleweed racing, a cruelty free sport (unless you consider getting your hands potentially stuck with thorns.)

Palouse moments

This is someplace I will try and send myself when things get hard.

Not in reality but mentally.

the big sky makes me feel so small and my problems nonexistent.

just an ant in the fabric of the carpet of life.

 

ignoring the falls completely to look down this green crevasse.

without the foreground of sun burnt grass- green velvet.

Crows and Ravens, Magic and Mystery, May 30th-July 12th, 2014

A murder of crows arrive to ArtEast this May, along with a truckload of great crow and raven related happenings.

Personally I can always appreciate a crow, they are cheeky and intelligent and they are like the hipsters of the urban animal community in that they always know what's going on.

I am happy to live amongst crows and happy as well to be a part of this show.

Let's hear it for the Crows!
 

Treeline

Lots of undocumented collage to report over here, including this Recycled Landscape named Treeline.

Just over a week to go, get those proposals in for Heaven and Earth VI!

Call for Artists on until May 1st, 2014

I have been updating galleries on facebook like crazy  to showcase the many beautiful spaces that would take your art work.

There are even some videos of the locations.

Now it's your job to propose something.

Carkeek is one of the most beautiful parks in Seattle. It meanders across many levels and offers an array of spaces unique in vantage points and horticultural style.

In 2009 we were new to the area, and happened to walk into the Edward McAbee Entrance.

This was the first Heaven and Earth and I fell in love.

Plant adoptions were occurring and we adopted an oxalis which has since taken over much of our tiny garden, what was a weedy little plant is now a mass running three foot by four foot, ever a reminder of that first Heaven and Earth.

I have thoroughly enjoyed participating in Heaven and Earth as an artist, what could be better then art in a slice of nature amidst the mass of the city.

Nature and art meet , white walls stay out we don't need you.

Are you ready to propose?

Visit CoCA to submit Now!