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rachel(G)art

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About Me

"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art." -Chuck Palahniuk
"It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."- Mother Theresa "The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy "It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends $500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only $53 annually on the victims of poverty."- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit." - Eli Khamarov "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much...it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt "Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine."- Adam Schiff, US Representative "It's not about charity, it's about justice."- Bono "Poverty is the worst form of violence." - Mahatma Gandhi
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My Interests

"Speak softly but carry a big can of Paint" -BANKSY "All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."-M. C. Richards "Everything you can imagine is real."-Pablo Picasso "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."-Joseph Chilton Pearce "An idea is salvation by imagination." -Frank Lloyd Wright "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."-Howard Aiken "To want to be what one can be is purpose in life."-Cynthia Ozick "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."-William Dement "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."-Baruch Spinoza "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."-Oscar Wilde "At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities."-Jean HoustonSo this is a slide show I put together to illustrate the evolution of my new work. The piece is titled "Transcendence"

I'd like to meet:

Mahatma Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, Dali, Gaudi, Egon Schiele, Mother Theresa, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Kaethe Kollwitz, Edward Gorey, Aldous Huxley, Sigmund Freud, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henery David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, J. D. Salinger, William S. Burroughs, Charles Burkowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, Chuck Palaniuk, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy.

Music:

"What we play is life."-Louis Armstrong "I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."-Duke Ellington

Movies:

"Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much."-John Wayne

Television:

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." -Clive Barnes "TV is chewing gum for the eyes."-Frank Lloyd Wright "One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."-Kurt Vonnegut

Books:

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."-Groucho Marx "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."-Mark Twain "Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Heroes:

cheese

My Blog

You Fit into Me

  you fit into me like a hook into an eye   a fish hook an open eye   ~Margaret Atwood
Posted by rachel(G)art on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:32:00 PST

170 tons of rotting whale meat

More than 170 tons of rotting whale meat sit in an Icelandic dump site, just months after Iceland reopened commercial whaling and killed seven endangered fin whales. Another 200 tons of whale meat sti...
Posted by rachel(G)art on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:52:00 PST

"It was the day after Tuesday and the day before Wednesday." ~Edward Gorey

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Posted by rachel(G)art on Sat, 13 May 2006 04:07:00 PST

detail of ...

this is a detail of a larger piece, it's inspired by my memories of the salt flates and the seabrook power plant near my home town...
Posted by rachel(G)art on Fri, 12 May 2006 12:32:00 PST

mangoes are non-violent fruit


Posted by rachel(G)art on Fri, 12 May 2006 10:07:00 PST