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I haven't taken a polaroid since my birthday last year. Today I dropped by Rare Medium, here in Seattle, with my friend Anne. I picked up a pack of black and white film made by the Impossible Project.
I'm excited to start taking polaroids again, but have to pace myself as 8 exposures cost $22.

This is Anne at lunch.

Art Give Away

I'll be giving this original gouache drawing away on my Facebook page. If interested in entering the contest go to: www.facebook.com/pages/Joey-Bates/192876500760722

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I will put the list of entrants into the list randomizer at random.org/lists
I will not share any of your information with anyone.
This contest is free and helps me spread the word about my work. I'm grateful for the following I have, but need some help in taking over the world… just joking about the taking over the world part.

The winner will be selected WEDNESDAY the 15th of FEBRUARY

About the drawing.

I haven't made many portraits over the past several months and was itching to make one. So I used a photograph I found just the other weekend in Bellingham, Washington- at Alladin's Antiques- as reference.

The world can be a strange and small place. There are two names and a German word typed on the back of the portrait: Maria- Darstellerin Annemie Mayr. After some searching and translation through the internets I found that the girls name is Annemie Mayr and Darstellerin means Actress. She played Maria.
Passion plays are recreations of christ's death. The town of Oberammergau, in Bavaria, Germany has been producing passion plays every ten years since 1634. The townspeople of 1634 promised god to produce a passion play every ten years in return for safety from the bubonic plague that had been affecting the region at the time.

Annemie Mayr played Maria in 1934. This production portrait was taken in relation with that production and somehow ended up in Bellingham, Washington. It now resides in Seattle, Washington. Crazy.

From my most recent show at Gage Academy of Art

Jut
graphite and gouache on toned paper
22" x 30"

Plication
Crimp, fold, flex, bend, pleat, transform.
Explosion
Blow up, detonation, fragmentation, transformation.
Human Figure
Breathing, moving, shifting, transforming.

From my most recent show at Gage Academy of Art

untitled
cut paper
14" x 20"

Plication
Crimp, fold, flex, bend, pleat, transform.
Explosion
Blow up, detonation, fragmentation, transformation.
Human Figure
Breathing, moving, shifting, transforming.