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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Visual Art 'Truths We Forgot to Lie About'

Posted by on Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM

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I'm not sure whether this is a photograph for exhibition or whether it's just a picture of where the artists in question made their art: in a creepy basement, undoubtedly in Tacoma, caught between the poles of gross methmaking and romantic moonshining. It's definitely a regional portrait of a sort.

"Why is the Northwest home to so many bootleggers, meth cooks, serial killers, and craftspeople?"

That's the question that appears with the photograph in the description of the show Truths We Forgot to Lie About, opening at the Helm Gallery (in Tacoma) Thursday night. The artists behind the show are Eli Hansen (of Elar fame) and Joey Piecuch.

What they're showing exactly, I don't know, but it sounds terrific. It's "a series of objects, chemical reactions, and tinctures to study historical and geographical connections in the Northwest," created by "garage chemistry, traditional craftsmanship, backyard naturopathy, and a limited budget." Piecuch's background is in chemistry and botany, Hansen's in bookbinding and glassmaking.

Charlie Krafft, you're going to this, right?

 

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"Why is the Northwest home to so many bootleggers, meth cooks, serial killers, and craftspeople?"
Probably the same reason as why there are so many gays and lesbians.
Posted by badbob on February 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM
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Maybe it's time for a changeling.
Posted by daniel on February 17, 2009 at 6:55 PM
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Tacoma is awesome and the HELM is the best.

I think it's crap that Sean Alexander co helm founder is moving to some hippe farm commune. What the hell?
Posted by RR Anderson on February 17, 2009 at 8:19 PM
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just came from this opening....really quite amazing! combining ted bundy house fragments and cedar trees and mercury and dead mice and and and.....both conceptually and aesthetically stunning! WOW
Posted by canard on February 19, 2009 at 10:23 PM

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