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Andrew Newell

Sculpture

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Mixed Media Assemblage

32” X 57” X 24”
2013
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Well, today is the day. I thought a tinfoil mortarboard was appropriate. It's very strange day. Important things are happening. I hope everyone stays safe out there and please, have as much love and compassion for your fellow humans as you can muster. #graduation2020

Well, I just gave my MFA thesis presentation this morning! I presented a history of my work throughout the program, culminating in my thesis work. Ruby is proudly showing off my final project, Reliquary for Capitalism. Apparently my presentation was pretty good and now I'm going to bed. More posts to follow after I catch up on sleep. 😁👨‍🎓🛌💤

Me and Widowmaker here turned a nearly matched set of legs today. #pnca #pncaathome #appliedcraftanddesign #halliefordschoolofgraduatestudies #woodworking

Thanks so much to Uncle Cassady for supplying Ruby with some awesome books for a growing brain! Ruby brought me a project she wanted to make, a electronic dexterity game. So over the last two days Ruby and I soldered up some LED's, the battery pack from an old disposable camera, the power switch from a broken printer, and some galvanized wire to make a simple circuit. Then we hotglued the whole shebang into a cardboard box and gave it a sweet custom paint job. You have to navigate the wand along the wire path without touching it and completing the circuit. This is the kind of stuff that makes quarantine bearable for me. #homeschool #quarantine #quarantinelife #sciencerules #scienceexperiments #homemadetoys #diyarcade #fatherdaughtertime #repurposed #upcycle

I made this sculpture during undergrad and took a mold of the egg form, just in case I needed to make more later. So when my wife showed me the cute Easter stuffy she got for our daughter, I suddenly remembered the mold and decided to launch into one of my signature harebrained, eleventh hour, over the top, gift crafting frenzies. It's a little lumpy on account of knocking it out quick like a bunny, but I don't think she will mind too much. #eggs #eastereggs #eastergifts #fastcrafts #eastercrafts #plastergauze #monstermud #montanapaint

Even though my 3D printer can just spew out these little victims of corporate aristocracy, it still takes plenty of patience, manual dexterity and morning coffee to finish them up. My mood is a little grim as I listen to the morning news from around the world. I can't help but feel that lives would have been saved if world governments were as concerned for their citizens as they are for the bottom line of the mega-corparations that pull their strings. By suppressing the existence of the virus in the initial outbreak and by putting political and television ratings before the health and safety of their populations, both the Chinese and US leadership have displayed their contempt for the lives of common people. In our world politics we are often convinced that China, Russia, or other countries are our enemys and fundamentally different from and opposed to our way of life. This is an illusion, people all around the globe thought culturally different all have the same basic needs, hopes, and fears. We are all being manipulated into being afraid of each other's differences by governments and corparstions that grind us together to generate profit. What can we do about it? I'm not sure, but we can start by talking about it. We can make art about it, we can sing songs about it, we can dance and rant about it. We can make small changes within our selves, our lifestyles, and our communities. We can plant a garden, we can drink less coffee. We can mend our cloths or repair our objects. We can love each other and someday again, hold each other. Eventually, I believe we can nudge the needle back tword the Earth and humanity and away greed and fear. #workinprogress #pncaathome #pnca #portlandartist #covıd19 #quarantineart #corporatemasters #corporatearistocracy #oligarki #latestagecapitalism #3dprinting #studiopractice #studioprocess

So, my thesis work is still proceeding in the face of this epidemic. It seems an especially important time for me to complete these pieces, which illuminate the human cost of a system of corporate and governmental profit mongering. These systems are so pervasive in our lives that for the most part they blend into the background, it's usually only during catastrophic failure that we can began to perceive and understand the mechanisms of control that are woven tightly into the fabric of our daily lives. I've already noticed many corporations endearing themselves to consumers through apparent acts of philanthropy in relation to the crisis. These companies would not lift a finger unless they stood to gain financially from the situation. Big philanthropy is a scam! If corporations just paid their fair share of taxes to a government made up of politicians who didn't take giant bribes and or have financial interests in those very same corporations, then we wouldn't need billionaire handouts in dire times. We would just have the government funds to provide for the health and safety of the public. Also, you didn't think I was going to let this little apocalypse slip by without robots did you? #openyoureyessheeple #thesis #quarintine #corruptgovernment #corporatemasters #megacorporation #oligarki #pnca #halliefordschoolofgraduatestudies #appliedcraftanddesign #thesiswork #remotelearning #3dprinting

Give him the clamps! These clamps, that I use every day of my robot life? CLAMP! CLAMP! CLAMP! CLAMP! #givehimtheclamps #clamps #clamp

🎶We got cabin fever!!🎶 🎶We got cabin fever!!🎶 #quarantine #lincolnlogs #slowmotion

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