24 x 24 inches. Razor cut.
28 x 32 inches. Scissor cut.
24x24 inches razor cut. 2012.
22 x 28 inches. Scissor cut paper and colored pencils.
28.5 x 22 inches. Ink, scissor cut paper.
30 x 40 inches. Cut Paper.
18 x 24 inches. Colored pencil and cut paper.
20 x 20 inches. Cut paper.
25.5 x 20 inches. Cut paper.
9 x 29 inches. Mixed media on hand cut paper.
24 x 17.5 inches. Ink, colored pencils, typewritten, cut paper.
30 x 24 inches. Cut paper and colored pencils.
15 x 22 inches. Cut paper, colored pencil, typewritten.
8 x 24 inches. Cut paper.
30 x 40 inches. Cut paper.
30 x 24 inches. Cut paper.
26 x 20 inches. Scissor cut paper.
22 x 40 inches. Cut paper, acrylic.
15.5 x 18 inches. Cut paper, colored pencil, ink.
24 x 30 inches. Cut paper.
30 x 24 inches. Cut paper.
30 x 24 inches. Scissor cut paper.
We are all constantly playing the role of healer for someone or something else. Intentionally or not, our existence and actions automatically tell stories. All stories contain information that becomes truth. What the truth is depends upon whose point of view it is. That point of view could be painful, routine or amusing, but either way creates lesson that further forms or simplifies our many points of view. Everyone has the potential to 'heal' by existing in the thoughts of another being, just by making them think.
We are all constantly playing the role of dealer, wanting something in exchange for something else. Survival requires things that we cannot get by staying put with only ourselves. How we carry out our dealings, what we need to deal and why we choose to deal all create an accurate portrait of who we currently are and how much we need each other. And in the process of making a deal we heal each other with the lessons we learn from engaging the deal itself. If you watch your train of thoughts long enough, you may decipher all the healings and dealings that currently speak to you in your life.
Animals, humans, shapes, spirits, bicycles, music and sighing.
During a live radiowave transmission session, participants come up to Anja Notanja and ask the Universe any question and the radiowave answer will fall down her hair-antennae and be transcribed by her typewriter.
RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE are birthed to Earth through the clouds.
RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE run through trees like hot pea soup.
RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE cleave wormholes we can fit through.
RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE will happily transfer you to the 17th dimension.
RADIOWAVES FROM SPACE are precious and evil queens will always want them.
Evening conceived, narrated and directed by Anja Notanja Sieger
Guitar John Sieger
Gong Johanna Rose
Cheerleader Renee Bebeau
Typists:
"Astonishing" Freesia McKee
"Clickety Clack Kashou" Jenna Kashou
"The Tipsy Typist" Molly Snyder
"Clackmaster Ramsey" Nick Ramsey
"Balonica" Monica Bennett
"The Mnemonic Moniker" Monica Thomas
footage: Jeanne DeSimone, Skyler Kroschel
editing: you, you, youuuu
Location: Pfister Hotel, April 17th, 2015.
Special thanks to Dustin Zick, Cassy Scrima, Brie LaPlante, Z2, the Pfister Hotel, Helene Fischman, and all attendees!
footage: Jeanne DeSimone, Skyler Kroschel
editing: Skyler Kroschel
All photos by Helene Fischman
Musician Jo Ha
Played by artist Renee Bebeau
John Sieger
Founder of La Prosette, 7th Pfister Hotel Narrator
Writer Freesia McKee
Molly Snyder, journalist for OnMilwaukee, 6th Pfister Narrator.
Poet Laureate of Racine, Nick Ramsey.
Performance artist Monica Joan
Poet Monica Thomas
Writer Jenna Kashou, 5th Pfister Narrator.
Megan McGee asks for a love letter to John.
Jose Contreras offers some dirt about his brother Javier.
Sarah McCure describes her cat Waffles' personality.
"When art is subjective, a winner cannot be detected!"
All photographs by Helene Fischman
The ship’s roll book was lost in the wreck so no one knows how many were on board the Lady Elgin on the night it sunk on September 8th, 1860. 430 people were officially confirmed lost, and less than half of those have ever been found. Many more people died that night without anyone else to report their disappearance. Here are the fictional thoughts of shipwreck victims, but many correlate with true stories that I found while researching the Lady Elgin. After typing fifty thoughts, I took them to Lake Michigan and submerged them for many hours in a memorial “drowning ceremony.”
Here is the video of the "Drowning Ceremony" for these thoughts.
These were all real things found in my parent’s house where things do not get thrown away easily. It has been over forty years since they moved in, so it is a museum of 20th & 21st century debris. Before making the painful decision to throw something away, every possible virtue or alternative use for that at-risk item is considered.
In the summer of 2016 I was commissioned by Artists Working In Education to teach a mural making class to students at Hayes Bilingual School. We each made our own tessellation shapes and added them into a cohesive quilt-like design that artist Terry Spears also helped draft.
In 2012 I was commissioned by the Milwaukee Artist Resource Network to Design a "Little Free Library" on the northeast corner Washington Boulevard and 48th in Milwaukee. This library is intended for public use. Take or leave books as you please!
