Compassionate Action for Animals

Midwest Animal Advocacy Conference 2008

Their Lives, Our Voices 2008 seeks to bring together individuals from across the region for a hands-on, high-quality conference focused on helping animals. Their goal is to make the conference as inclusive and accessible as possible for both new and veteran activists in the Midwest region, with a focus on farmed animal advocacy efforts. They want to enable as much attendee participation and networking as possible, so go out to support the animals and the environment. The more vegan, vegetarians, and fellow supporters will help make this a great event.

This conference is being organized by Compassionate Action for Animals, an animal advocacy organization based in Minneapolis, MN.

The conference will take place Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Conference Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Moby Dick!

Turkish Carpet!

Missing mitten

I just miss Duluth.

This is what happens when I'm up late listening to the Weakerthans and missing my boyfriend. I'm cute.

Audrey Flack

Born 1931, New York City, USA



Audrey Flack is defiantly at the top of her game in the modern art world with her stunning sculptures, lucid watercolors, and vivid paintings. Considered one of the top women artists in America, Fleck celebrates the strength, beauty, as well as power of women. We can see this clearly in practically her entire collection of sculptures depicting women as wise sovereignties such as Isis (1983) and The Art Muse (1988).

Though, much Audrey’s work carries feministic undertones, many of it speaks to all people on different issues. In her painting, Wheel of Fortune, she paints what at first seems to be just an odd assortment of objects. Then, with a closer inspection of the hourglass, fruit and jewels that surround the hallow stare of a human skull we realize she is warning us not to chase after fame, fortune, and beauty for in the end only one thing is certain: death. She even seems to be holding up a mirror to us forcing us to see what we really are, and our absurd behavior.

Even without this chilling message hidden in warm colors the piece is something to marvel at with its rhythm by way of repetition of color and the clutter similar objects. It also has some sense of perspective with the angles of the objects like the card, mirror, and dice.. Each object has its own texture, and the overall piece has a bit of a sharp blur giving it a dreamlike quality. She is also using color to move our eyes around and through the piece giving it a 3D sense of space.

I have found many things about Audrey Fleck inspiring. Mainly, I feel a strong connection to her feministic side, which allows for her sculptures and painting to move me all the more. Also, I admire the message she sends out to humanity in the piece Wheel of Fortune, because I too feel that we are living in a dream world most of the time, especially here in America where it can seem like a separate world where fame and fortune are the measure of your worth.

The Whole World is Fraud and Fantasy

Last year in 2D Digital we studied Turkish design. Using Photoshop and Illustrator we created Rumi acordian books. This is the first page. Below is more Rumi.



Rumi, meet reader, reader, Rumi. Enjoy.


I cannot sleep in your prescence.

In your absence, tears prevent me.

You watch me My Beloved

On each sleepless night
and
Only You
see the difference




If you can’t smell the fragrance

Don’t come into the garden of Love.

If you’re unwilling to undress

Don’t enter into the stream of Truth.

Stay where you are.

Don’t come our way.



I swear, since seeing Your face,
the whole world is fraud and fantasy
The garden is bewildered as to what is leaf
or blossom. The distracted birds
can't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.




This is love: to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of live.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to be the self.