Day 4374: Larger than Life Collage, Visit Riggins, Idaho.

  

 

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Larger-than-Life Collaged Figures 

From neighborhood highlights to presidential candidates to the total solar eclipse event this past April, Johanna Goodman’s lighthearted collages highlight vital issues, current events, and pivotal personalities. Foregrounding city scenes, iconic architecture, or vivid patterns, the figures in her compositions confidently embody their surroundings and concerns. For the last few years, Goodman has focused on a series titled Catalogue of Imaginary Beings (previously). More recently, she has branched into numerous sub-series that often focus on specific themes, ranging from regional celebrations—like a collection celebrating the heritage of the Bronx neighborhood in New York City—to fashion, the seasons, mythology, or her vision for the future. She works with a mix of materials, from analog paper and paste to digital tools to fabric, creating collages that are often installed at a large scale.

Many of Goodman’s pieces directly reference current events and critical social issues, like depicting a wind turbine worker as part of WIRED magazine’s monthly series titled Your Next Job or her recent collage about abortion rights made in support of RHEDI, a nonprofit expanding access to high-quality abortion care.

Resilient women often make appearances in Goodman’s pieces, like a portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris, who wears a manifestation of the White House in a reflection of her bid to win the presidential election later this year. And author and journalist E. Jean Carroll, whose legal suits against Donald Trump found the former president liable for sexual abuse and defamation—the latter twice—appears in front of an ornate classical courthouse wearing armor and wielding a sword.

 

Goodman recently translated a few figures into quilts and soft sculptures for an exhibition titled Figure. Head. at AmCE Creative Arts in Seattle, opening September 14. She also designed the front cover of a new Penguin edition of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, which will be released on September 24. You can pre-order your copy now on Bookshop, and explore much more of Goodman’s work on her website.

A reading vacation to Riggins, Idaho

The now friendly town of Riggins was once known as “Gouge Eye” after a vicious saloon fight in which the obvious happened between a couple of rough and tumble citizens who came here in search of gold in the 1850’s.

Riggins lies between the two deepest gorges in North America and rides the banks of the Little Salmon River and the famous Salmon River, the longest free-flowing river within the lower 48 states. Adventures east take you up the Salmon River to the “River of No Return” Wilderness, a name that the Indians used to warn Lewis and Clark; and also captured the spirit of Captain Guleke’s adventures in his one-way scow trips.

Turn west and adventures take you to the Snake River and Hells Canyon. This spectacular setting makes an ideal home base to explore areas of recreation, history, and scenic beauty. The White Bird Battlefield, Nez Perce National Historic Park and the Slate Creek Ranger Station are some of the historical sites within 30 miles to the north of Riggins.

Walking Tour Riggins, which is now named after John Riggins, the area’s first mailman, is proud of it’s history which has included ranching, mining, lumber, and activities tied to the river.

In 1921 Field and Stream featured a story on Captain Harry Guleke who ran a wooden scow down the Salmon River from Salmon City to Lewiston. He would dismantle his boat, sell the wood for $5-the cost of the wood-buy a horse and head home.

In 1936 he did an expedition for National Geographic down the same stretch. In 1990 a group of outfitters from Riggins commemorated Idaho’s centennial by building and taking the scow down the river. That boat now sits atop the City Park and, along with 21 other points of interest, are marked with historical signs as part of the Riggins Walking Tour. There are also 3 sites along the big Salmon River Road.

Souvenir t-shirt

 

  

 

A 3+ minute video, Beluga whale * kayaker,  here

 

 

 

  

 

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Indian Eagle Owl

  

 

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