DECEMBER \ RESIDUE
Polina Tereshina & Ben Gannon
Residue was a collection of works about what is left behind. Each set contained one painted ceramic bisque plate by Polina Tereshina as well as a plaster cast of faux-driftwood dipped in paint by Ben Gannon. The artwork is housed in a beautiful custom-made wooden box crafted by local woodworker Steve Leroux.
SEPTEMBER \ FIELD RECORDINGS
Demian DinéYazhi´ & Nat Evans
Each curated box set contained one lo-fi field recording/prose sound piece and 72-page color book, American Bondage West, based on a 69 piece 35mm slide poem by Portland artist and poet Demian DinéYazhi´; as well as a book of coyote tales and original sound work wrapped in an ink drawing by Seattle writer and composer Nat Evans. The artwork is housed in a beautiful custom-made wooden box crafted by local woodworker Steve Leroux.
JUNE \ REIMAGE
Catherine Cross Uehara, Jusyn Hegreberg, & Nate Lippens
In ReImage, each of the featured contributors present pieces made from an older, larger work, employing a kind of cannibalism and renewal.Each curated box set contained one small fuzzy weird acrylic mesh painting by Catherine Cross Uehara, one small spray painted puzzle-piece painting by Justyn Hegreberg, and a hand-bound booklet of tender stories of queer youth by author Nate Lippens. The artwork was housed in a beautiful custom-made wooden box crafted by local woodworker Steve Leroux.
MARCH \ SIGIL
Jazz Brown, Guy Merrill, & Meghan Trainor
Each set of SIGIL contains one small acrylic painting by Jazz Brown, one collapsible sculpture by Guy Merrill, and a hand-bound booklet of writing by interdisciplinary artist Meghan Trainor; a treatise on syncretic tension, alchemy, and object-oriented witchcraft. The artwork is housed in a beautiful custom-made wooden box, each with an offset inlay of rare wood and beautifully beveled edges crafted by local woodworker Steve Leroux.