breadcrumbs back home

RAW:natural born artists is an independent arts organization that hand-selects and spotlights independent creatives in visual art, film, fashion, music, hair and makeup artistry, photography, models and performing art.  
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
doors open 8pm
Bossanova Ballroom
722 East Burnside Portland, Oregon  97214
(503) 206-7630
Tickets $10 presale, $15 door
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Portland Raw Artists Activate

If you plan on coming out to the show, pick up your mindfulness and bend  with a handful of creatives which are here to entertain you in a night of feathers, sound, and the world through their eyes.  Under The Root will be showcasing designs on stage surrounding a theme from "The Nightingale" written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1844
"My excellent little nightingale," said the courtier, "I have the great pleasure of inviting you to a court festival this evening, where you will gain imperial favor by your charming song."  "My song sounds best in the green wood," said the bird; but still she came willingly when she heard the emperor's wish.

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entelechy

There is a compartment of sensibility where the newest collection for Spring/Summer 2012 has evolved.. and it begins with a word, entelechy.
We grasp an idea of philosophical beginnings to form a vintage, fable inspired vision.  As old or young as each tree identified from the northwest landscape, our continuation ensues.

Entelechy
A perfect realization as opposed to a potentiality.
The state of being complete.
In vitalist philosophy, a vital force that propels
      one to self-fulfillment.  It is also understood
      by many as the dynamic purpose that is coded within,
      a purposeful unfolding of what a thing is.
In Aristotle's philosophy, it's synonymous with
      completed actuality, where there is no further
      potentiality to be realized.  The essence has been fulfilled.
The actualization of form-giving cause as contrasted
      with potential existence.
A hypothetical agency not demonstable by scientific methods
      that in some vitalist doctrines is considered
      an inherent regulating and directing force in the development
      and functioning of an organism.
The entelechy itself, by moving toward its destiny,
      fulfills its own nature as a consciousness.

This collection will be visualized in images with the roots of specific trees, and the elves which inhabit them.  Within the next month, a lookbook of this collection will be listed at the shop online as we continue to move forward.
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