art exchange

Saturday is my montly shift so I figured I might organize this to see what happens. I plan to bring some framed shots to trade.

Kevin Patterson

Colombia Photos

Currently I have some shots up at in the Firehouse Retail space. I went to Colombia in 2007 and am proud of the collection of shots I made. Here is the artist statement for the shots....

"Luckily, the Cidudad Perdida, the Lost City is in Colombia and not Japan. If it was in Japan, I would have had to walk one step behind our guide, Walter, for the rest of his life until I saved his life in return. I do not want to have to hike that path again.

I fell in the first of 8 river crossings. I was swimming, or more accurately, aggressively floating to a large rock to try and pin myself. Walter dove after me. He dove into knee-deep water because he knew the current would carry him. Later he told me that he has almost bit it 5 times in that river and it has always been at that same rock.

As soon as we made shelter I crawled under a blanket. I slept 28 out of 36 hours underneath a mosquito net. I had a cough, my joints ached, and I had the shivers. I wasn't sure if it was malaria, a cold, or sheer body exhaustion. I prayed to God, and I don't pray to God often, to make it exhaustion. I did not want to be the sorry son of a bitch that they had to carry out of the jungle.It had rained for three days.

The excess weight in my bag was both my and the jungles sweat. My notebook was wrapped in plastic, and then placed in my camera bag, which was wrapped in plastic again. Yet it was still moist. The internal lens misted over. My fingers and toes had wrinkled in my own constant sweat. The pack weighed heavier every day. It rained as we climbed the last 1,800 moss-covered stones. The German, Volker, counted. He claimed that is what Germans do. The military men liked my camouflage poncho; they claimed it made us brothers.

The ruins were round."

Written March 2008

Kevin Patterson

Flyer 2

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Flyer 1-Please Send to Somebody!

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tearing down walls

On Dec 5, 2008 we tore down a wall to open the new retail space at the Firehouse. The mural above was painted on the wall, we kept the mural but not the wall. For those long time Firehouse regulars, the new retail space is in Matt Spastic's old room.