"G R O W T H // pain, 1 of 3" | archival ink on bristol paper | 18x22 in | 2016

"G R O W T H // pain, 1 of 3" | archival ink on bristol paper | 18x22 in | 2016

📸 . . . . Thanks to everyone at the ARTIST TRUST @artisttrust event "Photographing Your Work" workshop with Jenny Hyde, @sproutpout , Larie Weaver, and Anne-Claire Mitchell @ayclair . I got to meet a fellow local artist whose work I'd been admiring for a while now, Pam Hensen. . . . . #richmondartcollective #spokaneartists #spokaneaet #studiotime #artisttrust #learning #muse . . . . . Researching color, scale + light for this 4 x 8 ft panel. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the cultural + environmental loss of our salmon in the lower Spokane/ Spokan river after watching local director @derrick_james Derrick LaMere's "UNITED BY WATER". If you missed the world premiere at the Garland in October '17 , we're in the works to bring this powerful film into the Terrain Gallery during the Sept/Oct exhibition as a programming piece to engage the community about our waters. This film is bringing attention to the labor + ceremony our local tribes have been doing to resolve the loss of our diety and pose the question: when will our salmon return? ♦️♦️♦️ . . . Head to Derrick's production company, War PonyPictures @warponypictures for more info on the film and more. the quiet before the storm. . . . . . This 4x8 ft masonite panel is going through it's first stages of transformation. Got a layer of GAC-100 sealer on now. One more layer to go, then gesso layers, then...... 😏💦 . . . Well I'm currently scheming on possibly embedding thousands of hand painted bright orange-y reddish salmon roe on this panel 🐟 // will be on view this Sept + Oct at the Terrain gallery in a group show with six local artists including @karen_mobley and @ellenpicken about water. . . . . . Stay tuned for updates on this HUGE first introduction to working on panel. Yes, this will be my first attempt on panel, yes I love to learn by doing 😏. The masonite sheet was $13, (3) 1x2 in pine framing strips @$5 a piece, (1) 8oz bottle of GAC-100 sealer $13 from #spokaneartsupply and using a quart size bottle of gesso $20 = $51 //// this is not including fabrication labor hours /// but wanted to share a rough estimate of how much this would cost for someone to build on their own as well. . . . . All of this would not have been physically possible without the assistance and help from John Choma! He's been here for every step of this project and we make a good build team It's been a blast to get to build this and thirteen other panels that we're in the process of framing from another 4x8 ft we cut up earlier this week. In total I'll have 14 new panels to work on /// sooooo excited ✨😏✨ ⚫⚫⚫⚫ . . . . Found some old sketches of a potential tattoo design a dear friend was and is possibly still thinking about getting. I've done over 30+ stick and poke tattoos in my day. . . . . Even had my dear friend @softlumberjack get one of my pieces done in a shop in NYC. Check out their profile + website www.niceherrera.com They are making gorgeous handmade shoes + leather goods. . . . . Of course I was flatttered and also thankful they asked for permission as it was a birthday gift. I do firmly believe in giving royalties to artists original work, so if yr thinking about getting one, simply get in touch and we can talk pricing in exchange for use of the image ⚫💕⚫ . . . . . Conspiring get my hands on a decent machine and starting tattooing with a machine, which I've only tried a handful of times. 😏 Does anyone have one they are not using, of COURSE professional grade sanitation practices would be carried out. I've already got some in-town ppl who are ready for ink ✨🤔✨ NYC // BROOKLYN qts, don't sleep on this one 🌬️ Go for me, k? ODE TO PAIN NO. 2,493 . . . . . ((This is also what studio time looks like )) . In so much pain my face Turns bright red My ears Turn bright red My scar Turns bright red Too tired to cry Turn bright red Too tired to walk Turn bright red No end in sight Turn bright red I should walk Turn bright red But rape culture often keeps me inside Turn bright red This is so old Turn bright red But I still know I am healing Turn bright red Everyday Turn bright red I am tired Turn bright red In too much pain Turn bright red In too much pain - . . #mylongestendurancepiece #painpoem #odetopain #turnbrightred #roinmorigeau #chronicpain #painpost #paintax #pain #poet #poem #ode . A note to pull u in rather then push u further away: Please refrain from motivational or "keep going" type of comments. I do realize the intent is genuine. Emojis work great if you find yourself wanting to comment but are unsure what to say 😌. Seven years is 2,493 days. Or 89 moon cycles. It's been a long time. I didn't have a single grey hair on my head when I started this journey. There is always healing happening, but there are always pain days too. 🌹 I am not sharing my life publicly for pitty or support. My community, my elders, + my lover hold me up. I share to be seen by someone who sees themself in my work. Because I believe creating + experiencing art can be a healing act. Thank you for you're well wishes, they do genuinely resonate. I realize the emotional complexity of witnessing someone in pain. But that is what I ask, to witness me. Thank you for witnessing me 🌱💦 multiples 🏷️🏷️🏷️ . . . . Had a really good visit with local artist Dan McCann @danmccann12 last week. We share a deep love of paper collage, assemblage sculpture, repurposing, and multiples. . . . . Here's some of what Dan gave to me to work on some assemblage scultpure + mobiles. I love the idea of having a visual conversation, using the same materials, with another artist. Dan + I's work could not be more different but there are small themes that I think might suprise us both if we ever decided to put our work side by side. I'm curious what will come of these and am excited to use them as a new studio warm-up. . . . . . (Also, for all the virgo/ virgo risings out there - do you spot a theme or methods in the organization? 😏) . . . . #intergenerational #dialouge #and #engagement #is #a #decolonial #act . . . #spokaneartists #spokane #spokaneart #assemblage #foundobjects #industrialwaste #repurposing 📐 It almost feels like I'm back at @squaredesigninc in NYC 📐 . . . . Panel fabrication happening in the studio all week. My buddy + local graphic novelist John Choma is generously donating his time to co-work this panel assemblage. I 100% would not be able to do this without a support person handling all the heavy (and even light) lifting. . . . It does feel so so good to be picking up qwik grips, wood glue, and pine after nearly 5 years (this July 15th will officially be five years) since being forced to leave a dream job I loved and a group of guys I still miss everyday! . . . @sober_sober and the whole crew we're so supportive thru that extremely painful + difficult first six months. I'm still learning my limitations but more then that after 5 years of living with debilitating pain, I'm learning what I can do. . . . . Learning lots about paneling, I've built more flats then I can count but fine art fabrication and panel prep is a whole different ball game. First step: GAC 100 sealer then gesso layering. Will post updates ;) 📐 . . #thefutureisaccessible #roinmorigeau #spokaneartist #queerartist #process #studiotime #disability #differntlyabled #accessibility #fabricator #fabrication #artistmade #panel #acrylic #gouache #mixedmedia #spokane #nyc #gowanus #southslope #brooklyn emotional palette cleanser A tiny #process panel. . . . "STILL HERE" | 4 x 4 in | acrylic, graphite on panel | 2018 . . So I'm working on creating a large 4 x 8 ft panel piece for an upcoming PRIDE show at @emergecda June 21-23. The show will involve 6 local lgbtqia2s artists. I immediately started thinking about documenting our existance.Tally marks have been around as long as humans have been on this earth. They are found on nearly every continent. This piece has a working title, "STILL HERE" . OR "STILL GAY" OR maybe "STILL QUEER". or perhaps it will shift and evolve. What I was originally articulating is that I do have people in my life who have struggled with my queerness. No I did not have a coming out party. No there wasnt cake. For nearly a decade it has been difficult for some family to accept my queerness or "homosexuality". I had imagined these tally marks being created by those individuals like, damn it, they are still gay. But now I'm also seeing it as a point of rescilliancy. Marking the days as a way to remind myself I am still here. That my queerness has always been a part of me. Perhaps not able to be fostered or encouraged at a young age due to social conditioning. But it was always there. And I'm still queer. Still here. It also feels heavy, acknowledging each tally as a life. Or each tally as a life lost. Personally, I dread phone calls from friends I haven't heard from in a while because way too often it is THE call. Another of our queer family has died. Taken their life. The tally stops. Thousands of queer family lost. It also feels symbolic of who we still have here. STILL HERE. we never forget our queer family that we do not get to laugh, love, joke, dance it up with. But in a way each of us, each of us a tally. For every one tally marks ten more who didn't make it to today. Queer native youth back on granny's rez, are loosing middle schoolers. Children. This epidemic is so under represented. How do we hold all that laughter, love, jokes, and dance in our bodies. To be queer is complex. It is also grief, loss, ceremony, stuggling in clothes, classrooms, homes, towns, rooms, public places that will never "fit". But we wake up every day. Tally mark, still here. 💕 Accidental studio sculpture . . . . #what #do #we #do #now #that #its #over . . . #roinmorigeau #spokaneartist #sculpture #artiststudio #process How do artists price work? . . . . . Deadlines have kept me from my #SUNDAYTHREE but I wanted to share this new page on my website with all of you. It's a working algorithm I'm using to price my work. Head to www.roinmorigeau.com/pricing for a closer look 🔎 LINK IN BIO 🔎 Artists, how do you price your work? . . . . #paintax #roinmorigeau #artistsinpain #spokaneartist Because everyday we honor + remember. . . . . . We each know one, two, three, four womxn, trans/two-spirit individuals who never came home. Their stories stay largly radio silent in the media. Our communities have been taking to the streets + social media to bring attention to this epidemic. You can help by signal boosting ✨ . . #mmiw #mmiwg #mmiwg2s #olivialonebear . . (1) "IN NUMBERS TOO BIG TO IGNORE" by Jeffery Gibson @jeffrune currently on view at @denverartmuseum . . . (2) "Every One" | Cannupa Hanska Luger @cannupahanska , from LAZY STITCH group exhibiton. On view at Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery of Contemporary Art @ Ent Center for the Arts, Colorado Springs, CO . . "ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Anchoring the exhibition is Every One, a social collaboration culminating in a monumental sculptural installation by Cannupa Hanska Luger in collaboration with hundreds of communities from across the so called US and Canada. Composed of over 4,000 individual 2" handmade clay beads and representing the photograph Sister (2016) by First Nations photographer Kali Spitzer, Every One references the data of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, queer and trans community members in Canada as noted in research gathered by the Native Women's Association of Canada in 2016. Spitzer also presents Sister, a photography and sound installation which further honors MMIWQT community members." . . (3) signal boosting post from artist Demian DinéYazhi' @heterogeneoushomosexual whose ekphrastic poem #aninfectedsunset will be released by @purduboispress this June. Click Demians profile link for more. This is the artist who made the tote I carry with me everyday 💕 STUDIO STILL. 📷✨ . . . . . #spells #on #spells #on #spells #on #spells 🔎 . . #i #look #for #u #everywhere . . . #roinmorigeau #digitalcollage #photography #spokaneartist #spokane ART CRUSH @jeffrune . . . . . . . . Hey Denver! Go for me k? 💕 Miss u , love u 🔻 . . . . . . . Who can guess where I took this picture back in 2015? 😊😏🤔 I know some of u r gonna get it right away. Some emoji hints: 🦌🏳️‍🌈⚓🌊 I'm musing on turning it into another digital collage for an upcoming show of digital work here in Spokane, WA at @theshoponperry (swipe right to see some of my process around making these collages) . . . . . . #puttingthebuckinbucknaked #digitalphotography #digitalcollage #roinmorigeau #photography #queernature #nature #is #a #womxn #and #i #am #in #love #with #her 🤔 . . . . . . . . . 📷: Thank you @cody.r.s for capturing this picture, just moments after a big day tabling at @getlitfestival with @theportalcollective . I'll be posting up our first poetry + art chapbook for you all to get to see online if you didn't get a chance to come down on Saturday. (wow - I have my granny's nose 😊). . . . . #spokaneartist #queerartist #spokane #spokan #has #always #been #queer #gender #is #a #colonizer #construct STUDIO STILLS. 📷📋✨ . . . . . . . #practice #womxnafesting #contemporarysigils #spokaneartist #queerartist #spokane #spokan #has #always #been #queer #gender #is #a #colonizer #construct