REACT 2010 = VanOCular Waste

hello strangers, friends, lovers, 

this is my work for the REACT 2010 site....which is: www.react2010.com

an online exhibition created by the fabulous, lovely folks at Alternator Gallery in Kelowna, BC.....

i feel this speaks for itself, the artwork i did...the olympics looming over vancity, like a spectre, the ghosts of the past that i feel still haunt the city itself, so many wrongs in a century....the city ablaze....because i feel vancity is on fire with a lot of situations, conditions and problems.....that do not seem to be addressed.? ?. ? the wolf, the lone voice, the cultural theft in the god given right of capitalism......in the form of the cheese sweaters the bay contracted to a company in china for a hundred million.....instead of, you know, contracting the people who ORIGINALLY created that style of sweaters.....but business is business and there is probably a clandestine favour or something, some kind of reason done for that deal.......the olympics in vancity are going to be a noose, a five finger wedding ring that we will all be paying for, for a long time to come......wasn't it just montreal 66 olympics that just, JUST got paid off???? in native country, there's such a strange scene, a lot of people are getting gigs, music, or art, or dj'ing or whatever....and for us, native people, i have to say is it blood money? is it not? do you lose or gain credibility by choosing to "cash in" on these potentially lucrative gigs, or taking a stand and not doing them? it's rugged, tough decisions. again, in native country, nothing surprises me, because we already walk two worlds......the native world and the non-native world, and each is packed with choices representing the human condition......

so, anyways, have a look see, it's at the Alternator Gallery right now, just ask Jen to see it, it's a beautiful, large print, 30 by 40 inches......

thanks to Jen Pickering at Alternator Gallery, the Board of Directors, the Alternator GALLERY members.......for this wonderful opportunity to share my interpretation or story of how i see this games.......

in the meantime, know that i love you, and i can't wait to see you again,

cheers,

chrisbose

REACT 2010

hello stranger,

how are you? so, here's a piece, a commission i've done for the REACT 2010 Exhibition at the Alternator Gallery, in Kelowna, BC, and I'll be there this weekend, Jan 16-18, for a panel discussion and to display the art, which is about 40 wide and 30 tall.....nice.....

on the road peeps, see you soon,

cb

the skulls series.....

hello stranger,

how goes it? i'm well, just spent five days in vancity and loved it.....that city gives and gives if you let it.....life changing, affirming things continue to happen, it is indeed, mysterious the way the cosmos beckons.......things have changed.......my art continues to evolve and i am enjoying it now.....the anger has subsided, the rage, the fury, the burning......now......seems so distant.....my life seems so distant, the person i was, the person i'm becoming......we only get one chance at this opportunity, this thing called "life" and i'm going to go for it all.....

in the meantime, i've got a lot of work to do.....and i gotta tell ya, i'm enjoying.....

i miss you folks, all the best, i'll talk again soon and send up dates as i travel along.....this coming weekend i'll be in kelowna, bc, for the REACT 2010 cooperative exhibition at the Alternator Gallery, as well as the Word Ruckus.....in Kelowna to launch and or promote my book, "Stone the Crow"......

see you down the road,


chris bose.

sometimes i wander......

sometimes i wander.......here and there.....far and near.......sometimes i wander.......

re: my life is uhhhh.......

every truth is subjective to interpretation and every interpretation is subjective to...... commonly held misbeliefs known as lies....or whatever. i like guitars.

temptation comes in many, many forms......

love, hate, desire, longing, time, space, from her to eternity i go......into the abyss.....

re: lots of stuff.....

hello stranger,

good to see you again, thanks for coming by, i was perusing back in time on this blog, and wow, the range of art and emotions.......at times very raw, at other moments angry and guarded....

i think i actually split with my ex around june 9, 2009, which would have been 2 months after our most recent child was born....jayda....

the other night, i sat down and wrote out all the times we have separated, and it seems since 2005, each christmas for a couple months, except last christmas, and after the last two babies were born....within about two months.......what is the pattern here? depression? stress? post-partum?

i don't really know, but i move through the cold and the snow on this night and know that i feel better every day, and soon the warm weather will be here and like that old song said....i will survive......and i feel i've grown as an artist, and in many ways, a person too......

thanks for coming this past year all you'se who have managed to do so, and i look forward to entertaining you plenty in the year to come......

cheers,


chris bose.

ooooooooooohhhhhhh deathhhhh won't you spare your fingers for another year???

neurotic, erotic, quixiotic.

nighthawks at the diner

i've been listening to a lot of tom waits. i dunno, it really is helping.......when you gots the blues.....anyways, one particular album that helps is 'nighthawks at the diner'.....i can relate.

and i'm working on some new art, and it's gonna be much different. i'm gonna explore new directions, and i'm recording a new album right now, blues, boozy, sexy and fun......it's gonna be done this month.....

keep you posted....

cb

best old school pawn shop i know......

this is a pawn shop that would be like the one tom waits would own....full of slingerland drums, horns and accordians....and just the weirdest stuff i've ever found....it's even got dead stuff things on walls and stuff in jars.....old paintings of nude women, tons of records, good ones, and weird old stuff you just can't find anymore....it's like exploring a pirate ship, cause it's two stories and really narrow and claustrophobic......and the owner is like a landlocked pirate, always has a beer and a smoke in his hand no matter what kind of day, but he's not ugly or fat, just a cool dude.....a fucking pirate. anyways, i've seen my share of pawn shops across north america, they've always, or used to have good instruments for a cheap price......those days are actually gone because pawn shops have gone the way of the superstore, giant, bright, gaudy and expensive..........well, i gotta go, i finally get my kids today and i'm so goddamned happy i can't believe it......it's been 9 days since i saw'em and i am so damn happy i wanna cry......in the meantime, i'm planning my 40th birthday party and it's gonna be amazing......me, tom waits and a few surprises and it's gonna be in the loops.....we might even carry it on to vancouver......

a new year.....

hello stranger,

how's it going? i'm okay, i haven't been doing too much art lately, my apologies, i've been sorta wrapped in myself and some problems i'm trying to overcome or deal with so i can move on......

once these problems are worked through, i'll be back at the art again and life will trudge through the sludge along and that will be that.......

until then, happy new year, and hopefully it will be a fantastic one!

all the bets,

cb