Musings of an Artful Mind

Here I am with my submission to our museum staff show. The piece is a collage made from a collagraph print I made and a calender picture of a Hokusai woodblock. I was happy to hang my work on a different find of surface, instead of the standard white flawless wall this neutral bare wall is concave and one of several donated by Portland Center Stage. My camera is not happy right now with its purple stripe on the side but it's what I have and it'll do until I can get another one. I may have to start using my film camera again. Gasp!

Portland Art Museum Staff Show August 26 – 30 th 2008 Artist Reception 5pm, August 26 th Works of Art by more than 30 museum employees MarionMiller Gallery Mark Building 119 SW Park Ave. PDX, OR Today!! Join me and fellow museum worker bees for reflections on art, work, and the precarious balance between the two.

I’m excited to be here breaking in this new virtual space! I will speak out aloud, fleshing out my ideas for projects and respond to stimuli from the around the world around me. To show this will not be a dry toast bread ‘art blog’ I will also share my writing, my journal drawings on occasion, and of course the development of various personal works. Images from the pieces on display at Vino Vixens coming soon! ~ Poema 6 : Slip me down, underground where all the roots grow Let me speak in rain drops Let them whisper Heart beats, Children chattering, Dreams untold Sinking deeper I am close Enough to taste She is everywhere I am there With her A newborn awoken in haste I can feel the wind blowing Sweetly From the room across the hall Tell me about the last time you died In the arms of sleep The axe blade slipping in his teeth Red candle wax was dripping Fractal patterns on my skin I am naked in the garden

Thanks to my friends at sevencube.com and R& D technologies I have a new snazzy website check it out at http:///www.carolinamedinadupaix.com The August opening of my new encaustic series at Vino Vixens went very well and I'm so elated my friends, family, curators, and collectors were there to help celebrate with me. Thank you all so much!