Earthbound Dracology is a show by three illustrators. They win the unusual copywriting award for the month.
"These five dragons do not fly.
All bear wings, yet all remain pressed to the ground: rooted, folded, listening to the
slow breath of matter. What emerges through the paintings is a Dracology of earth
—a mythology born from touch, smell, humidity, sediment, and the dense tactility
of guache and pastel.
Each dragon arises from a different state of matter:
-the Mother, dissolving into soil and moss
-the Father, born of bitumen, sulphur, and broken stone
- the Keeper, curled on the seafloor around shells of hidden light
- the Son, blossoming from gas and residue into blue fire
- the Elder, resting between autumn trees, a guardian of memory and peace
Together, they form a cycle of origins, erosions, preservations, combustions, and
returns.
They are spirits of a world before symbols—creatures halfway between geology and
biography, where the strata of earth mirror the strata of the self."
The artists are Jack Howl under the name Beachghost from Melbourne, Chanel Tang and Ambrose Rehorek under the name Creature Creature from Melbourne, and Daniele Castellano from Bologna.
See the dragons https://www.nucleusportland.com/blogs/future-exhibitions/beach-ghost-creature-creature at Nucleus House Gallery https://www.nucleusportland.com/ 1137 NE Alberta 5PM-7 Free
All the Eastside events are at http://firstfridaypdx.org/ and their socials which list many shows and their times.
