I installed Artwork by Natasha Bacca at Naked Winery in Hood River, OR.
It will be on exhibit until December 5, 2014. 
 
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Memento Mori is being installed in two locations in Portland, OR this week.
The first will be in Apas House Bed & Breakfast, and
the second will be in the lobby of The Arthur PDX downtown.

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to see these installations as they progress.

Shortly after ordering my new iPhone 6,
I ordered my new case with one of my new galactic pieces on it.

Get your iPhone case with Artwork by Natasha Bacca on it here.

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."
Iris Murdoch

I love this quote, and I think it is so true!
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Garden Delight
unique chromogenic photogram
flowers + light + love on photographic paper
22" x 18"

I donated this piece of Artwork by Natasha Bacca to Arts Central's Black and White Gala.
Read about the piece I donated last year here.

Passing Landscape 1, Passing Landscape 4,  Passing Landscape 15
40" x 40" aluminum prints
Installed

University of Oregon in Eugene, OR purchased the above three Artworks by Natasha Bacca.
They are installed in a student housing site.
I graduated from University of Oregon, so it's very exciting to have artwork there for current and future students years later!

Winner Jody Tuttle selected a 20" x 16" print of Garden Dance.
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When using "Cheers" to title the artworks in my wine series I use it as,
"A blessing. To wish some one good cheer and happiness."

"Cheers" is an expression, often used as a greeting or toast. It is a ritual in which a drink is taken as an expression of goodwill. While often involving alcoholic beverages, especially champagne and wine, toasting is not limited to alcohol and as a custom it can involve celebration or ceremony with any beverage. The origins of toasting date back to 1640, and the first known use of 'cheers' was in 1919 (according to Merriam-Webster dictionary).

Various stories claim the custom of touching glasses is related to concerns of poisoning. Clinking glasses together causes each drink to spill over into the other thereby discouraging one from poisoning another for fear of mixing beverages. Offering a toast was therefore a gesture of good faith. However, no verification of this has been found.

The International Handbook on Alcohol and Culture says toasting "is probably a secular vestige of ancient sacrificial libations in which a sacred liquid was offered to the gods: blood or wine in exchange for a wish, a prayer summarized in the words 'long life!' or 'to your health!'"

The term "toast" comes from the ancient practice of dropping a piece of burnt bread into wine. One of the first written accounts of it was in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor when Falstaff demands, “Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in’t.” (He is asking for a large quantity of wine with toast in it.) Toast was put in lower quality wine to temper it. The charcoal soaked up some of the acidity making the wine more palatable.

Drinking joined in celebration spans time and connects cultures. While the physical and / or verbal ritual of a toast may vary - from elaborate and formal to simple and unceremonious - the intent of benevolence and fellowship is universal. 

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Recently I have been creating more artworks in my galactic series (found under my abstract work).
Images in this series explore space. The unknown and unexplored realms of the physical world are imagined as one might experience them. This series falls into the genre of Space Art, also known as Astronomical Art, which is modern artistic expression that strives to show the wonders of the Universe. 

Like other genres, Space Art has many facets and encompasses realism, impressionism, hardware art, sculpture, abstract imagery, even zoological art. Though artists have been making art with astronomical elements for a long time, the genre of Space Art itself is still in its infancy, having begun only when humanity gained the ability to look off our world and artistically depicted what we see out there. Whatever the stylistic path, the artist is generally attempting to communicate ideas somehow related to space, often including an appreciation of the infinite variety and vastness which surrounds us. ~ Excerpt from Wikipedia found here.

Like many artists, I am expressing ideas surrounding "an appreciation of the infinite variety and vastness which surrounds us." Additionally, I am drawn to the mystery of it all ~ a truth that one can know only by revelation and cannot fully understand. Swirling lines and patterns represent energy ~ the dynamic quality of positive spiritual force ~ the fundamental being of nature that is transferred between parts of the system. Circles represent form ~ a mode of existence, action, or manifestation of a substance.

See more of this series here.

Purchase prints from this series here.

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Last week I installed the above 13 Artworks by Natasha Bacca at Naked Winery in Hood River, OR.  They will be on exhibit until December 5, 2014. 

Naked Winery is located at 102 2nd street in Hood River, OR.
They open daily at 11:00 AM.

Special offers on my wine series through December include:
~ 50% off all prints to newsletter subscribers. Subscribe here.
~ 25% off all originals to Naked Winery members.  Join here.

Thank you for viewing!  

If you have questions or comments I would love to hear them.

Much love to you all!

The Billboard Art Project is a nonprofit organization that acquires digital billboards normally used for advertising and repurposes them as roadside galleries. Projects have been held in cities all over the United States and are open to all individuals and groups who are interested in participating. Types of work that may be displayed include images created specifically for the billboards as well as images of previously made art adapted for the billboards. No two Billboard Art Project shows are alike; each city features new work. In addition to providing artists with a venue to display their art, free art shows are provided to the public, thus initiating a dialogue between artists, viewers and the public landscape.

The Billboard Art Project has been on hiatus since late 2012.

I participated in The Billboard Art Project on the following dates in the following cities:

• Atlanta, GA - September 29 - October 26, 2012
• Salem, OR - May 25 - 27, 2012
• Baton Rouge, LA - November 5, 2011
• New Orleans, LA - October 22 - November 18, 2011
• Savannah, GA - May 14, 2011
• Nashville, TN - April 2, 2011

Below are select images of Artwork by Natasha Bacca on display as part of The Billboard Art Project. See more of The Billboard Art Project's photos on Flickr.

Read more about The Billboard Art Project here.

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