D'Merde Post Mordum

(A Painting By Jason Moreno, picture here)


It ended up being absolutely exactly what I hoped it would be. So many people contacted me the next day with new project ideas, mixed media project ideas, collaborative project ideas.

The artists were terrific, Cheyenne Glasgow (photographer) had a photo/sculpture piece, photos mounted on a cabinet. It had Cheyenne's distinctive look of a slightly melancholy dreaminess mixed with an odd forced practically that makes me question my own views of what being pragmatic actually means.

I had only seen Shannon Mayorga's paintings online before the other night by even on the blinky little screen, his lush use of color and striking sort of controlled looseness is absolutely lovely. Kind of edible or something. The piece that he brought was actually a print but looked so much like a painting - I need to learn more about this.

Jason Moreno is another artist I had only seen online, as well. (Damn I was so incredibly lucky, considering). His paintings are intricately odd fantasies. Some maybe nightmares. (my favorite) There's a frantic quality of meta-think, a brain whirring with uninvited images. Jason brought four painted metal masks to D'Merde that he hung in a criscross of wire on the wall. The masks were reminiscent of both the Day of the Dead as well as Balinese masks I've seen (the mouths, in particular).

I'll write more about the readers/performers later, they highly deserve their own blog.

XO