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charlene

resistance in creation

About Me

I enjoy hiding out at home and painting pretty pictures. I make mixed media installations as well. I show my work in Ontario, BC, and other places. Check out my site, go to blog link. SHOWS 2008 Brown Skin Before Red Richmond Art Gallery Opening Friday March 7 2008 music by Chad Macquarrie and Lee Hutzulak opening night March 8- April 20Sleepwalking and Supernatural Indian Visual Arts Centre of Clarington Jan 2008I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

More art and less work. art then music then movies then painting, then drawing, then quills and beads, and then seeing a miro painting that makes us dance. Six cats that are too fat,hearing from old friends- INDIAN BENCH DAYZ. Driving is so much fun! Walking at Spanish Banks at night. Thinking about the next great thing and waiting for spring to arrive. " I can finally prance around in a bikini!!!" Watching the cat parade in my back yard.

I'd like to meet:

artists, writers, creative types with instruments, my creator(gitchi-manitou), cat lovers

Music:

jeff buckley, karen foster,radiohead, alicia keys, the band, robbie robertson, red bull, white tail singers, sonic youth, joni mitchell. redbone, buffy st.marie, cat stevens, jim black

Movies:

The Party, the wicker man, susperia, lair of the white worm, harold and maude, rushmore, a clockwork orange, the horses mouth, harry and tonto, the misfits, the devils, I'm luvin excellent old timey movies.TCM rocks!

Television:

coronation street, black adder

Books:

not wanted on the voyage, one hundred years of solitude, hammer of the gods,oryx and crake, perfume,the petty demon, master and the margarita, tracks, love medicine and four souls. fiction mostly

Heroes:

louise erdrich, arthur shilling, Van Gogh, Gaugin

My Blog

tobacco and a big stick

  Rain/ washes tragedy from streets/ sharply turns cold/ falls deceptively/ to blanket sorrow Instinct shoots through/ pierces my stomach/ like an arrow/ A reminder to be ready/ ready to run/ pr...
Posted by charlene on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:48:00 PST

Day-job Exorcism

Day-job Exorcism  Easing into the stark reality, a pig's hoof swings inches from my face. At what was once disgust is now acceptance, and this pig's carcass, limp and lifeless, is now commonplac...
Posted by charlene on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:41:00 PST

for becoming

For myself becoming For my obsessive creation For my familiar pain For my blessed intensity For my lost brothers For my lost sisters For those who have survived For my drunken father For my brave u...
Posted by charlene on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:47:00 PST

the word

I've lost my most beautiful word It's somewhere in my head And now its lost The word was powerful And had structure The word held truth And I believed in it The word was perfect Describing so many thi...
Posted by charlene on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:02:00 PST

great find

So I was buying paint down at granville is. today and came upon a great find.  I finally found the article where my moccasin piece Not For Trade is featured.  When I read this I was ecstatic...
Posted by charlene on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:56:00 PST

rain

when the rain smellslike smokeI can hear your songI can hear my mother's voiceand my father's crysand my boyfriend's sighswhen the rains smells like smoke  
Posted by charlene on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:22:00 PST

wauzhushk the muskrat:creation

Wauzhushk your back is arched/ memory distended/ Anjigozi between past and present/ Common movements seem too redundant/ Repetition/ Bottoms of feet/ filling with blood/ Monotony/ A controlled st...
Posted by charlene on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:34:00 PST

misko the deer

My perfection/ my sweet perfection/ equate two halves of a sphere/ Heaven on Earth/ creation/ my creator's love/ blessed are the days of solitary/ meandering/ blank rest/ Lay beneath the wool/ lay to ...
Posted by charlene on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 03:56:00 PST

muhkwa the bear

My protection lays with muhkwas words/ When I dream/ When there are no memories left to dream/ she is there to provide/ In darkness/ I am led by her/ I can leave sickness/ Her strength is my warmth/ G...
Posted by charlene on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 01:20:00 PST

site link

Hi, find my art here and some in pics area.   charlene   http://www.charlenevickers.ca...
Posted by charlene on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:26:00 PST