Wonderful news - I've found a planting location for the drawings! You are invited to participate in the final 2017 event for the project on Friday, September 15th from 6:30 - 7:30 pm.

At this event I will be giving half of each portrait to participants who would like to take away seed paper to plant in their own garden. The other half will be planted at the Fargo Food Forest to be shared with the community. The seeds in the drawings are varieties of lettuce, kale, spinach, squash, broccoli, and Oregon wildflowers.

When planted the paper will act as fertilizer for the seeds, and the drawings will decay. At the beginning of this planting event I will give a short talk about the project. I hope you can join us! I am so excited to be partnering with the Urban Farm Collective as the work they are doing is amazing! The Fargo Food Forest is located at the corner of NE Fargo and N Williams, right next to The Waypost.

To RSVP for the planting event visit the Facebook event HERE.

This project would not have been possible without the generous support of a Regional Arts & Culture Council project grant. 

Life has taken a complicated turn. I have to remind myself to breathe. Five days after the Pop-Up Exhibition at Portland Art Museum I experienced a very traumatic and life altering event. 

At 1 am on Wednesday, August 9th, my husband and I were awoken by the sound of someone pounding on our front door. When dashing out of bed to investigate, we saw a wall of flame outside our upstairs window. There was a fire right next to our house. A fire crew was trying to get us out.

Thanks to the quick work of the fire response teams, the fire was extinguished before it did serious damage to our home. From what we understand, an unidentified individual started a fire in the dumpster of the business next to our driveway. The fire reached arborvitae trees that line our driveway for privacy and they went up instantly. After the fire was out and we were allowed to return to our home, we were able to assess the damage. All the arborvitae burned, and both our personal car and the truck we use for our business Pulp & Deckle had their sides closest to the fire melted.

So many things could have gone differently that night. All things considered, it was the best possible result of a terrifying incident. We are working with insurance and hope to have repairs started soon. If you would like to help in our recovery efforts please consider clicking on the SUPPORT button on the right side column of this website and make a contribution. It is difficult to find time to prioritize my art work and this project when I am focusing on the repairs and insurance conversations. Your financial support will give me a little breathing room. Thank you!!!

And in terms of wrapping up this project, I'm still looking for public planting venues for the portraits - do you know of any place that might be interested? Please send them my way at jenn@pulpanddeckle.com.  All the pieces have been photographed in high resolution (I'll be posting them here soon!) and I am ready to turn all these beautiful faces into fall vegetables and wildflowers. I'm hoping to have them planted in the next 3 weeks, fingers crossed!