{"id":4442,"date":"2014-11-26T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2014-11-26T13:41:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T21:41:08","slug":"strangers-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/?p=4442","title":{"rendered":"“STRANGERS” and you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello yo<\/p>\n

Here is a collection of piks showcasing the work of artist Robert Amador<\/em><\/a> and myself at UpperPlayground PDX <\/a>for the month of November 2014. The show is titled “STRANGERS”<\/p>\n

The inspiration for my collection of work came from a trip my lovely girlfriend Amalia<\/a> and I took to Santa fe New Mexico in the summer. The city undergoes a long tourist season throughout the year and there is block after block of all genres of art being showcased yo , it was really beautiful. What inspired me were the Kachina<\/a> dolls , the Kachina<\/a>\u00a0are spirit beings in western\u00a0Pueblo<\/a>\u00a0cosmology and religious practices. One description is:<\/p>\n

“The central theme of the kachina [religion] is the presence of life in all objects that fill the universe. Everything has an essence or a life force, and humans must interact with these or fail to survive.[3]<\/a>“”<\/sup><\/p>\n

This was something I could relate to and personally felt my own work blindly heading towards a similar direction, a kind of psychedelic anthropomorphism<\/a>\u00a0going on in the kachina dolls.There are many little stories personal and random within these paintings, but one overall theme is present and that there is a tiny u.f.o. floating by all the heads of each figure represented. The reason for the tiny u.f.o.’s is the fact that they are tiny u.f.o.’s , and I am sorry for such a vague explanation, but that is just about as much sense as I make from it. The mediums I used for this series were acrylic,acrylic ink, pencil and colored pencil. (flyer design by Seth Conley<\/a>)<\/p>\n

oh yeah, get a pillow for that ass cause there are allot of pictures here …<\/i>
\n\"snta3\"<\/a>Here are the Kachina’ that were the inspiration that kicked off the series<\/p>\n

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\n\"st1\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"st2\"<\/a>\u00a0\"st4\"<\/a> \"st5\"<\/a> \"st6\"<\/a> \"st7\"<\/a> \"st8\"<\/a> \"st9\"<\/a> Big Big huge thank you! to Blake Johnsen for taking piks of the work , I owe that guy like an arm or somethin.\"st10\"<\/a>
\n<\/a>\"st11\" <\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/i><\/i><\/i>\"st13\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"st14\"<\/a> \"st15\"<\/a> beautiful custom made frames from my talented buddy Ian Mayer<\/a>\u00a0\"st17\"<\/a> \"st18\"<\/a> \"st19\"<\/a>This one was the show stopper! by\u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a><\/p>\n

\"st56\"<\/a> \"st21\"<\/a> \"st22\"<\/a> \"st23\"<\/a> \"st24\"<\/a> \"st25\"<\/a> \u00a0Robert Amador<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/a>
\n<\/a>\"st29\" \"st30\"<\/a> \"st31\"<\/a> \u00a0Robert Amador<\/a>
\n\"st33\"<\/a> \"st34\"<\/a> \"st35\"<\/a> \"st36\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\"st37\" \"st38\"<\/a> \u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\"st39\" \u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\"st40\" \"st43\"<\/a> \"st44\"<\/a> \"st45\"<\/a> \u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\"st46\" \"st47\"<\/a> \"st48\"<\/a> \"st49\"<\/a> \"st50\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\"st51\"<\/a> \"st53\"<\/a> \"st54\"<\/a> \"st55\"<\/a> \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0Lil weird dude I made to decompress after the show, I like him and I am gonna make ‘mo’\"st57\"<\/a> \u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\"st59\" \"st60\"<\/a> \u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\"st62\" \"st63\"<\/a> \"st64\"<\/a> The reflection in this piece shows a guy who came in and said the art was “all right or whatever” then he preceded to ask us for spare change.\"st65\"<\/a> \"st66\"<\/a> \"st67\"<\/a> \"st68\"<\/a> \"st69\"<\/a> \"strange<\/a> \"stranger<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\u00a0has some nice prints in his store<\/a> here are a few. \u00a0<\/a>Robert Amador<\/a>\"MandarinPayaso\" \u00a0Robert Amador<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>
\n<\/a>\"Longlimbskim\"Some work that didn’t make it in the show..\"snta5\"<\/a> \"snta6\"<\/a>me and my sis as kiddos<\/p>\n

\"IMG952014073195070603\"<\/a>The latest radiate<\/a> #21..\"rad21web\"<\/a>\"snta4\"<\/a><\/div>\n
Big thank you’s to Robert, Ian, Aunna , Amalia , Blake, Elliott, Seth, Mutt, Olivia, that one dude, railyard ,Upperplayground PDX and a bunch more!!<\/div>\n
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and thank you so much for giving some of this work a look through.<\/div>\n
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smooches<\/div>\n
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In this blog is a collection of piks showcasing the work of artist Robert Amador and myself at UpperPlayground PDX for our show “STRANGERS” give it a look see Continue Reading yo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,26,56,17,6,31,25,14,43,55,54,18],"class_list":["post-4442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eat-cho","tag-art","tag-eatcho","tag-fresno","tag-kachina","tag-photography","tag-portland","tag-puppys","tag-robert-amador","tag-travel","tag-travel-portland","tag-updx","tag-upperplayground","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eatcho.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}