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In 2009 I partnered with Papergirl in Berlin to bring Papergirl to Portland.

Over 200 original works of art were donated to the project.

In September the art was shown at the Second Nature Gallery.

In October, some awesome people and  I rode through the streets of Portland on bicycles, distributing the donated art at random to people on the street.

so much fun, right?

Stay tuned…

Papergirl PDX 2010

Won’t be organized by me, but you can find out more at http://papergirlportland.wordpress.com/.

Papergirl PDX, like most of my projects, was funded by myself alone. If you’d like to support free, public art that is kinda awesome, please consider buying me a burrito:

Saturday was a crazy wonderful. One of these crazy whirlwind days that unfolds continuously. It started early, at 9 am, when Ivy from W+K came over to interview me for a show she’s doing on their W+K Radio station about Portland. Keep Portland Abe! Then I went down to P:ear to interview homeless youth for my Neighborhood Diaries project. Then C picked me up and we were going to go home or something, but we decided to get coffee instead, and saw people dressed up to do the Lion Dance so we went to the Chinese Garden to watch that. It was a beautiful sunny day, and the lions were spitting out lettuce. Also, one of them had a little tail that wagged around really fast.

Then we went to breakfast at Pambiche, and then I bought fancy chocolates at Alma, including a chocolate sacred (anatomical) heart covered in gold. This was a gift for Irena, whose studio we then went to.

A week before, Irena had a contest where she gave away all the art in her studio to make room for the new year’s creativity. One nice couple from Ohio brought Vodka he had infused with cinnamon sticks and vanilla (which I later got from Trader Joes). I tried a shot and it was delicious, so I was hopeless when later offered with a White Russian made from the stuff.

Here’s me with my free art, the piece is called “Dismembered Sky.”

After that we went to Bonfire to play pool and finish what the White Russians started, and Sabrina forbade me to ever wear a hat again. Also C beat me at pool a lot, but I didn’t mind.

Abraham Ingle (that’s me) won a 2008-2009 award for my Neighborhood Diaries Project, read more here. Thanks to the RACC and to all my friends and family for their support!

from www.woostercollective.com:

A terrific little story sent to us by Jody in London:

“A few weeks ago I went to the Cans Festival in London, I took a few pictures and put them on Flickr, including some work by Minneapolis graff artist, Broken Crow.

A day or so later, Broken Crow added some of my photos to his Flickr favorites, so I dropped him a Flickrmail, telling him how much I enjoyed the show and jokingly suggested that if he’s ever in London again and needs a wall to paint, then he’s welcome to paint my house.

Broken Crow asked me to send him a photo of my wall, said it was perfect and that he had a spare day between visiting relatives in London and painting some commissions in Paris. Three weeks later he’s here, in my garden, with his fiancee, painting a 12×15ft mural of a cheetah.

We had a great day – the weather was perfect and I can’t quite believe it happened. Proof that not all friendships made over the internet end in vampire worship and ritual suicide!

Huge thanks to Broken Crow and his fiancee – the nicest strangers I’ve ever met. The wall was painted on June 14, 2008.”

Friday night I had the idea to do this at a party, so I did it the next day. I’m pretty sure it was a mistake, actually, but oh well. Less than 24 hours from idea to finish, which makes me happy, also, I’m now 1/3 16.

Spoof the casino signs and post around town:

“You must be present to win.”

Yes, this is hippy Buddhist shit.
Don’t Care.

Some McSweeney’s folk are in cahoots with me on my audio project. This is very cool news for me and I have been dancing around all day.
Best of all, the “negotiations” took 2 hours from query to completion.

When I got home from work I salvaged some wood from an abandoned cabinet in the parking lot. I got an idea to paint some crows and a few hours later it was done. It is very exciting and rare for me to go from conception to completion in under 6 hours, so we are pleased!

Meditated, went to the gym, got into my favorite outfit and put on some kung fu while preparing some mirrors for an art project.