Thendara's Blog

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

Respectfully staying dry, mostly as I approach 40....

The rainy season has come and we are making up for all that dry of the past couple years.

I wait for a seasonal clearance to get back to northern state farm (photographed above by Tim Gee.) while it's wet and dark I look to the projects that have sat uncompleted and try to re find their voices to get them into completion.

The summer was easy the creative flow kept me awake at night, now we with the dark I struggle to want to be awake beyond the days tasks, thinking is much more a strength then doing.

If I could just hibernate a week I feel like I could be a new person, maybe one not so close to 40 years of age .... nearly a month left before the number devours me for a year...

whatever 40 means as a reference or a marker I don't intend to honor it as any more or less then any other year...

but it's coming and despite what I decide the world will still say you are 40...

how does it feel...

the same as five the same as ten- twenty five and thirty one...

it all has felt the same just maybe I became something more of something else as the year progressed.

I don't know what it means, that I could have lived over half my life at this point if I live the length of life my grandparents lived, that I hope I have lived healthier so I am not yet halfway, or that the vampire will come bite mebefore I become too feeble bodied to fully enjoy eternal life.

what does it mean? it means I may have to make some darker then usual art, and then forget about it and get on living....

 

 

Come one come all- Bemis Fall exhibition 2015!!!

This year I got my act into gear and applied to be a part of the Bemis Fall show!

I have been thinking on it for a few years and took action and am really excited to be a part of a show filled with great artists in a fantastic piece of historic Seattle, The Bemis building.

I will be showing my Recycled Landscapes and look forward to seeing you down south.

Come down see some art, meet some artists, maybe even take a piece home?!

More information :Bemis Arts

 

Northern State Farm

It has been awhile since I had visited this special place. To see it in such a state I was glad I came when I did.  Two different roofs collapsed, photographs there only memory of being whole.

weird to see something, actively pursue visiting some place where the decline is fast and no one is stopping it. the details wash away, distilled into some vague form of what used to be there, like having applied a photoshop filter too often and ended up with some vague recollection of what was. 

Interesting day in all the skies were filled with fire smoke from Everett Northwards, really weird, I have never lived someplace where I experienced the repercussions of forest fires before.

Can't say it makes me happy, in fact it makes me cry for the trees an awful lot but people who know me probably wouldn't be too surprised about this, I have empathy to spare, and some seem to have none.

 

 

70 years Ago

Artist Yukiyo Kawano with her piece Little Boy #2 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum with Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility Commemorating 70 years since the atrocity of the bomb drop on Hiroshima.
Check out both the artist and the organization:
Yukiyo Kawano 
Washington Physicians For Social Responsibility

 

What a heavy week with this and Nagasaki being 70 years ago and what bombs still exist while I didn't think about them much before but now that they are my neighbors these bombs, all around the coast they live.


Queen Anne's Lace on the Kitsap Peninsula

Daucus carota

Exploring the Kitsap Peninsula and happened upon these, what I believe is to be Queen Anne's lace, or a close relative.

Became obsessed with diving into their patterns.

Apparently when grown near tomatoes it increase their production. I found some interesting facts  on Daucus carota here

The building of my Earth Cell

I have been dug into this piece for many months. it has come to a completion minus a nice  layer of resin that will smooth the whole thing over  and level it off after many layers.

Alot of waiting time for each layer to dry to be able to go forth into the unknown and see what happens next, this was not a piece with a plan or a destination. I work without an end goal alot , see where the process takes me, this piece had many new processes and materials introduced and a whole lot of learning that accompanied it which will live on in it's benefit to my practice. I wanted to share the visual journey from start til completion. The many nights possessed by the need to add  to the extravaganza that I think of as an Earth Cell.

If you could see all the potential of the earth broken into one simple cellular form this is what I imagine it might look like.

My mom thinks it looks like a dragon's eye and I am course open to interpretation. I only came to know it as an earth cell during the last ten or so layers.