THB heads to
fitness center much later than usual today because we are not meeting the
Collectors Tour until dinner! At 7am, there are 4 other men there, all younger
than THB. By 8am, all but one are gone.
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| Archie Bray show set up in the Smith Gallery at Lewis & Clark |
DA preps a very nice breakfast: scrambled eggs and Ken’s toast, bacon, berries
and yogurt, café au lait. After 9 the
four of us pile into the brand new Tesla (SA and DA traded in to get four wheel
drive) and repeat the visit to Lewis and Clark to catch the Archie Bray show.
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| Albion Stafford: "Place Setting" |
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| What part of a place setting is this piece? |
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| Bill Wilkey: "Sugar Jar Triptych" |
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| Heesoo Lee: "In Dreams Bowl" a bargain at $2800, sold before the Bray show opened and maybe the best work seen all week: stunning! |
The show wasn’t up when the Collectors arrived (supposedly Bray saved a day of
travel expenses by not getting ready until Tuesday). It’s a very nice show and
a number of pieces have sold. THB will try and remember tonight to see if anyone
else went back to buy (yep, at least one person bought a piece).
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Off a’Tesla-ing we go way out to Mt Hood Community College for another one of those out-of-town NCECA shows, this one recommended by the co-locavore, Dylan. We have no trouble finding MHCC, the usual struggle to find the NCECA venue, and the show is right where it should be, at the Visual Arts Center. However, no NCECA signs. Hmmmmm…..the show is small and excellent with several interesting works:
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| Lauren Sandler: "Bedside re-collections" |
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| Dustin Yager: "Ejaculation Portrait - Alfred" be the first in your neighborhood to have a full set |
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| Dustin Yager: "Ejaculation Portrait with Hein" |
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| Ron Geibel: "Experimenting with Couples (violet sprinkles)" |
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| Lauren Mayer: "The Debris of our Lives" |
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| DB liked these a lot! |
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| Leslie Macklin: "A Study of Objects that Divide (series)" |
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| Porcelian barbed wire |
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| A picture of the barbed wire in situ; "With All Possibility, and None" |
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| Lauren Mayer: Small things creeping up on you (wait, that ant is moving!) |
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| The caption for the piece above...what a nice way to live! |
It’s lunch time
so we sneak across the border into Washington.
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| Bridge of the Gods: hopefully the infrastructure bill doesn't need to pass for this one to get maintenance |
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| You can watch yourself on the big screen (8" x 16") on the Tesla dashboard |
It’s not easy, somehow we manage
to get around the giant wall, er, cross the river without the proper
credentials (THB explains that we are really on our way to infect Canada with
dangerous thoughts of art and travel) and have lunch at the Skamania Lodge.
Ham
and cheese sandwiches for two female scofflaws, chicken sandwich for DA the
dodger, THB the possible Muslim has fish and chips (it’s Friday, THB is having fish
like any good Christian), two brewskies, an Arnie Pal-mer-great-again, and one
true American Coca Cola, $100.
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| Flora Bowley |
One more stop after
lunch before landing in the condo: the Visit Nail Salon. They also have not yet
received their NCECA sign nor even actual ceramics. Did someone confuse
acrylics with ceramics: same-same but different?
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| Careen Stoll with slumped plates; DB was trying to figure out how to smuggle them out of the restaurant |
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| Careen, Ryan, Lindsay, Lilith, Chef Justin |
Dinner is at
Castagna, and the event is a revelation, an oasis of muted sunshine in the
midst of another rainy evening. Three potters have been asked to join in the
festivities as the many courses are served on their work. The two chefs serve
up small courses that taste just like what they are. The two wines are perfect accompaniments
to the food: subtle and long lasting flavors. Even the brewski is nice, another
local draft IPA. Much discussion about…what else? Ceramics, controversy, how to
live a well-thought-out life, art, what we missed when resting up, ceramics.
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| Lindsay Oesterritter |
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| Lindsay's cups |
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| Blood orange and oil pick-me-up amouse bouche |
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| Mushroom, Beet, Beet + tartare, candied walnuts, there's a roasted carrot and cheese log under the leaf; no picture of the puff (it was really really good! It disappeared too fast to get a pic) |
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| Crab, chard + marinated leaves |
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| Salmon sashimi |
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| Butter topped with brown butter crumble |
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| THB manages to get his table extra rolls and extra whipped pork fat topping...and THB manages to eat some of those extras with whipped pork fat |
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| Broth with soft egg, eggplant, dashi, buckwheat |
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| Tongue (more like braised short ribs) topped with whipped egg, potatoes, spring onion |
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| There's also a veggie menu going: roasted squash |
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| Culotte (beef) on dark leafy greens, perfect (like all the other courses) |
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| White asparagus on dark leafy greens |
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| The salmon roe on rice almost disappeared before THB took the pic |
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| Sorbet and whipped ice cream with dark crumble cake |
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| Ice cream sandwiches; THB again is forced to help out with the extras |
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| Either a thank you gift for the tour members or a congratulations for finishing your meal |
Shots from
around (and from well away from) town:
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| Inside a stall at the Visual Arts Gallery at MHCC |
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| Waterfalls on the Oregon side of the drive along the very high Columbia River |
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| Small pockets of snow in the mountains looking east |
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| Portland is full of rainbows |
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| View of town near sunset from across the river |
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| Sofa free |
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| A, THB's bathroom buddy, found this one |
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| And this one |
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| Castagna wall art |
More shots from the California exhibit at the Hoffman Gallery at Lewis & Clark
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| Peter Beasecker at L&C Hoffman Gallery; THB liked our purchase at OCAC better (phew!) |
More Stan Welsh:
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| Victoria Gallegos, Chile, at Hoffman Gallery. THB can't tell if this is from pre-Columbian days |
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