Here’s an event you might be interested in:
We are only four days away from the Green Festival in Los angeles this weekend! Dorka Keehn, author of ECO Amazons, will speaking on Saturday at 1pm along with Jessica Iclisoy, Founder, California Baby and Alexandra Spunt, co-author, No More Dirty Looks: The Truth About Your Beauty Products and the Ultimate Guide to Safe and Clean Cosmetics.
Dorka Keehn's "Eco Amazons"
To find out more go tohttp://www.greenfestivals.org/
The materials I choose, and the images I create are a result of questioning to my self, why a person like me or just people around me in general would end up in a place like this, at this particular age. When you are surrounded by these materials and images, they become normal, and almost invisible. For example, with my accumulations series, I observe, depict, accumulate, and transform everyday objects such as paperclips, staples, screws, poster putty, and hair clips. By bringing these entities to the foreground, I’m trying to show how unusual these things really are. Imagine landing in the world today from, say, just 200 years ago. All of these things would seem so bizarre.
Quintan Ana Wikswo is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects integrate a constellation of works in photography, original text, video and installation, as well as performance collaborations with composers and choreographers. Catalysis Projects interviews her about synesthesia, washing dishes with kitty litter, and microtonal fantasies. MicroTextual will premiere Quintan’s Floriography I/Coimbra 1452 (with Rafael Liebich) and Floriography [...]
