Amy Conway

i'm so very excited for our annual Farm Party happening this Saturday, May 16! this whole farm thing is a wild and chaotic and wonderful existence that i love to share with people - we have been working and fretting and laughing and crying and growing all kinds of things on this .49 acre space since we moved in december 2020. and saturday we will celebrate all of that with music, free food, art, activities, baby ducks and big ducks, and farm space to explore music: Kyleen King (viola), Lisa Lipton (clarinet), Reed Wallsmith (alto sax), Shao Way Wu (bass), Tim DuRoche (drums) free veggie dogs, snacks, drinks veggies for sale plus : Alexis Gándara will be tabling with medicines and medicinal seeds and@ore amazing stuff @lumea_resin_works -Jhordan Blumenberg will have resin works for sale i'll have some art and t-shirts available as well plus a cyanotype station and maybe some other fun crafty things to play with come visit! it's kind of magical out here

why am i even posting here there is a part of me that lingers, thinks about connections, thinks about talking and here i am my life has changed a lot this year. i've been protective of myself, my brain and emotions. i do less and i've learned more about the toll that existing in a busy city takes on me i spent a lot of the last 2 years sleeping and when i was awake, sunk under fatigue. my awake hours were often from 2 pm- 3 am; give or take - with my time in bed/resting being at least half of those awake hours. this chronic sleeping and fatigued (hypersomnia and insomnia can co-exist, turns out) is related to the TBI from december 2019 and probably some meds that i eventually got off of, and a myriad of other contributing factors. anyways, i've been getting up most days by 10 am the last few weeks. it took me a while to figure what to do with that much time, honestly, i was so used to so much less usable hours. i'm not cured of TBI, that seems quite unlikely at this point, almost 6 years in- but i am ever shifting and constantly trying to adapt and learn and, in pulling in, staying home, sort of hibernating, i've been doing a lot more art making. daily, hours of the day. farming still, but with the physical fatigue of the last 2 years, its been harder than it was before. so, drawing, painting, playing. i just got back from a week at @souwester time alone, working my chosen schedule, engaging in my chosen levels of input and listening constantly to the ocean and the stormy november skies was just what i needed to help reset anyways - pictures : 1. my new tattoo, a little overgrown already by my hair 2. a little series of paintings - black ink on white paper 3. my half of the office 4. part painting, part spilled ink, all fun 5. the painting i left at sou'wester 6. the beautiful fucking ocean, seaview, wa 6-8. more paintings done with ink, playing with color and patterns and time on paper

Join us on the farm Saturday, September 13 for some incredible music from two of Portlands finest Come by at 7 pm, roam the farm, say hi to the ducks, pick up a beverage from our make-shift bar sliding scale : $15-$20 no one turned away for lack of funds ------- Kelli Schaefer : Mirroring the expansive noise and incisive shadow of PJ Harvey, with the fearless abandon of Nick Cave and vocal play of Bjork, Schaefer travels at light speed through the American landscape so many left and forgot to examine. It's art-pop with depth and vision, the product of an artist who not only carved out a space for herself but has grown into a voice with the potential to shape a landscape. ------- Brian Mumford's Dragging an Ox through Water perform songs rooted in folk and country traditions, though ruptured, complicated, and complimented with broken textures of feedback, drones, tape hiss, and homemade oscillators. Chance elements and candlelight sensitive instruments destabilize customary electro-amplified-tightness & introduce improvisation to the recitation of these songs. Dragging an Ox through Water has releases out on Mississippi Records, Awesome Vistas, Sweet Dreams Press, Stank House, Musical Impressions, & more.

Saturday, September 6 3 pm-5 pm @Perfromance Works NW 4625 SE 67th Ave, PDX featuring dj bob ham drinks and fun & art i made the most cliched cosmic mistake i bit down on a popcorn kernel cracked my tooth so hard right down the middle, down to below the gum lines, poor buddy folded up like an oven door it was extracted and so began the lengthy and incredible expensive adventure of TOOTH IMPLANT ART SALE : is an art sale event where i will pull art i’ve made over decades and present it for sale in hopes of offsetting the cost of this terrible tooth adventure

we are very excited to be hosting the next PUBLIC NATURE event on the farm spring is in full bloom and it will be a lovely event! Public Nature Sunday, June 8th 5:30 doors /6 pm show Lucy Cotter (text) Jordan Isadore (movement/performance) John Niekrasz (sound) $5-$15 recommended with all funds going to the artists Occurring in roaming venues, Public Nature is a performance series run by Danielle Ross. It includes artists working across disciplines including dance, experimental performance, sound, and text. Meant to stay on the move in terms of place and people, Public Nature aims to bridge disciplinary communities, foster a scrappy, head first approach to performance, and allow for a risk-friendly space for artists to show improvised or in-process work.

we are hosting our annual farm party on saturday, may 17 - kicking off our 2025 farm season we'll have life music - the fabulous Get Smashing Love Power plus free veggie hot dogs and snacks, fresh produce and duck eggs for sale, farm tours and lots of fun come by between 1 pm-4 pm and say hi, meet our ducks, hang out and see what we've been up to at the farm

today is the birthday of two incredible folks - one deeply missed jeff kelsay and the one thankfully, wonderfully with us lauren m sinner (of the wisconsin sinners) after jeff's death, i wrote about it as part of how i process shit and a poem i wrote about him was published in the eastern oregon university Oregon East art and literary magazine- i took picture of it and the second poem published and they are above. the poem is also where my jeff memorial tattoo came from (photo of mine and yours) - last year on lauren and jeff day, lauren, me, roland and kara all got a special tattoo and had to throw in a moment from sweet tomato - roland, jeff and my sweet lil team 🍅🍅🍅s forever today i was supposed to hanging with lauren, buying her a gigantic birthday sandwich and hailing her with praise but the snow + my deep SE residence got in the way - so i spent a lot of time compiling all the lauren hair colors that are present in my phone and making a lauren rainbow in honor of her birthday and i threw in some of my favorite bits of comedy we've done together, our character bits and wacky, silly and always lively collaborations lauren darling, my favorite sinner, love you to the moon and back

today is brandon and my 20th anniversary, of marriage - long ago, in a portland far far away, we made this very silly movie with the help of our dear friends @jeremiahhayden_ and @paulmichaelschaefer brandon made robot love story music and i made brandon 20 years have flown by and we are here, now, with our 2 fucking giant, beautiful kids, 2 magical cats, 6 beloved ducks (we miss you mabel syrup and kathy) and a sweet lil art farm life is weird and hard and sometimes delicious and often heartbreaking - today i will live in the joy of this thing and tomorrow will be whatever it is goodbye

just doing the basic year in review, kinda it's been odd really, different things too the spotlight, unexpected things some keywords: tattoos fuckos travel love family quitting starting sadness sleep heywood alvah cats ducks comics drawing karaoke meds bullshit doom trees fungi snuggles laughter this isn't everything and it also isn't nothing im am curious about next year, ill soon(ish) be 44, fully mid 40s fuck it, this year has been weird as fuck. i slept thru half it, i wish i was exaggerating - i wish that it was hyperbolic. it's not. TBI's are no fucking joke, and rolling into 5 years, i'm still unsure about how this brain injury will continue to unfold. this year is a blur of 10-12 hrs of sleep + naps a blurrrr but, listen, some med changes, im more awake anyways, my hair is long now. i have a blue hoodie. im waiting, just on the edge of my seat for my hair to turn more grey, lighter, silvery - i've been watching it since 2004 when i located my first fully gray strand (i spelled it both ways, appealing to the masses) that's plenty, probably. life feels thick and this is my hello

Feel the little chill in the air? That’s how you know the Fuckos are near! Catch us over the next month at our ongoing residency at @kickstandcomedy Big Dogs on select Saturdays! Ticket link always in bio! #pdxcomedy #wtf #improv

this summer has been hectic with me traveling back and forth between portland and wenatchee and the portland and seattle due to a family medical situation lots of video calls home, drawing to process, spending time with siblings and nieces, in hospitals, watching a lil pup a summer of planes, trains and automobiles new art emerging, time and priorities and rest looming large my kids, brandon, my pdx fam lavishing me with support and understanding my little @fuckosfuckosfuckos helping me disappear into silliness and be myself i love my friends (you know) whelp, this medical family biz isn't over but im feeling like launching a cry into the nebulousness of the interwebs also, couldn't make all the different shaped pictures work so i used a new app and put them all on a background(?) - i don't know, @kritzrackerz will teach me interwebs soon

That’s right, the Fuckos are hitting the road! Over the next 3 weeks, we’ll be traveling across this great nation starting at SE 10th and Hawthorne all the way to SE 37th and Hawthorne and nowhere in between!!!