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asymmetric
pseudo poncho
tunica dress top
hard to top
radical kamikaze knitting
sensitive Dada knitting
intuitive guerilla knitting
whimsical nonsense knitting
a supermodel´s nightmare
due to
infinite wearing options
a tribute to divas
who are not afraid
to self- express
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25th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 21 September, 2024.
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
Inspired by a song by Lagbaja where part of the lyric goes something like: "If I be fire and you laugh I don't care...I am free to express myself"
Loving the self expression.
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I have used an idea similar to this quite recently but it was late and I was having flickr block, so this is what I came up with tonight: Similar shoes in Black; new setting
For Kira's Art Journal Challenge..."Today, find a snapshot, paste it in your journal".....
I found this old picture from a road trip from KY to Gatlinburg TN, where I'd snapped a photo of my feet up on the dashboard. I just got the inspiration and went with it....sanded the photo down, painted the sky and background with watercolors...and glued into a journal page I painted previously...I added the blue/green strip of painted paper and went from there.....
This is one of my recent faves...
NEW CLEAR IS THE NEW KEEN... A WORD PLAY OF COURSE (ONCE AGAIN) AND TO BE FOLLOWED BY OTHER ONES AS TIMES WERE COMING THAT I FOUND MYSELF INTO SOME WET SANDS AGAIN, ALTHOUGH THIS TIME, I WAS AT LEAST OUT OF BEING TOO CLOSE TO BEING IN THE STREETS.
This work came of age on march 11 2011, the day where Japan had known the "Fukushima Incident"
It's a mirror work to the famous infamous yellow cake supposedly to be found in Irak years before.
it is as well just a statement about the state of affair in our societies where to be lost does not necessarily make of you someone who is gonna be helped.
NEW KEEN (NUKE IN) IS THE NEW CLEAR (NUCLEAR..)(well) YELL'O C-ACHE
PS : 2025--->with this série, I achieved a mix of my graffiti background with some more typical ''abstract expressionnist' technique, a free hand, automatism.
being linked, guided by words. problems I stumbled up·on
"serie" started by losing my studio in New Jersey, made me stay home and take a4 papers with a pen. this serie has spanned mostly from march 2009 to february 2010, culminating in '(n)ever ...you"
“Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy”
― Michael Ondaatje
My friend Bob making a point, sitting outside of Portal Brewing in Medford as we imbibe beers.
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Mona of the Playa I dreamed a dream while the masters brush coaxed my image from his paints. And in that dream, a deser, covered in white , cracked earth, boomed with man wondrous things. Shiny things, sailing ships. an elepaht, octopus and more did glide upon the sacred playa floor. There were temples there and flowers near as tall that shown forth light at night and stones tha sang when stepped upon. Lovers in embrace rose from the sand and there were sculptures, some which moved and some climbed upon by the denizens. Everywhere I looked, men and women, children, too, dressed head to toe in gaiety, did march and dance and play. And here, amidst this spectacle, arose a mighty Man, taller than all things, an effigy of one year spent, of lessons learned and of letting go. I was told the Man would burn. And, oh how bright and marvelous this scene did sparkle and beckon to me, calling out, "dance the wind, dare the fire and let the playa adorn you."
--- Mona on the Playa by Linda Voorhees
purschuim, plastic en acrylverf
foam, plastic and acrylic paint
Making Mandela & other matters
Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag 2012
By the end of the week us men start to run out of clean clothes and look to our female comrades for help.
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On this day my dear friend Erica asked me to take a mould of her left breast before the mastectomy. After a first failed attempt we managed to take a cast of it. Another step in her journey that is breast cancer...... If you have been touched by cancer, or by the strength that Ericas story shows please donate to www.mcgrathfoundation.com or www.nbcf.org.au/
You will never know whose sister, mother, friend you will be helping....one day it may be yours!
Love the pairing of the lizard suit and kitty ears.
Another cute couple, posing at the entrance to Art Alley.
24th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 14 October, 2023.
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
Awesome mushroom hat @ the Heavy Petting Zoo Stage.
I love the “Weird As F*ck 2024” ribbons.
25th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 21 September, 2024.
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
asymmetric
pseudo poncho
tunica dress top
hard to top
radical kamikaze knitting
sensitive Dada knitting
intuitive guerilla knitting
whimsical nonsense knitting
a supermodel´s nightmare
due to
infinite wearing options
a tribute to divas
who are not afraid
to self- express
... and ran into again. At least a few of them were first-timers, also.
24th Annual How Wɘird Street Faire, 14 October, 2023.
Howard Street, San Francisco, CA
FreeStyleFabricKnitting
elaborate use of crocheted ornaments
& floral sculptures
Where do I begin. No beginning... Just a lot of work and busy stuff and taking care of life on life's terms. Not feeling particularly inspired but needing to create in the face of a lot of obstacles. I am still on unemployment. Feeling a bit neurotic at times about the future. Wondering and wallowing on how I should proceed with my craft and capitolize on my talents. How much of myself do I give away? I rather not give anything away... People are asking for too much and don't want to pay for anything.
I just don't know about the future and find myself "needing" to face it. Something inborn I guess, from our culture. Dont' live for today, live for tomorrow.... Despite the lack of materials to help me along in my life and career as an artist and photographer. I have been learning to feel good with I have and can do today. Hard process. But I won't give up enjoying my life and myself in the process.
I've been spending sometime looking at other people lives in different countries around the world. From what I've been witnessing a lot live in a repressive culture that curbs self expression and individuality. I am so happy and grateful to have ownership over those things in my life. Freedom of choice to be anything I want, so as long I am not hurting anyone else in the process.
Though here in our country its not all perfect. At least we have such a thing called 'freedom'. I can't imagine living anywhere else where I have to conform my heritage, sexual orientation, and ideals to a government and culture and does not respect all people as brethren. I feel bad for those who do. Feel bad for those who live in this country and feel repressed. Not knowing they have such an amazing opportunity in exploring themselves and expanding their life. Here in this country.
Life is too short, time is slipping by faster and faster, and I don't want to miss out on today.