paper cuttings

Beewaer Cretchur Taymed Buy Feeir

23.25 x 33.25, 2025, Cut Paper

I Don't Wanna

33.5 x 23.5, 2025, Cut Paper

Possum, Between Worlds

23.25 x 33.25, 2025, Cut Paper

Animal Magnetism

23.25 x 33.25, 2025, Cut Paper

Wild Salad

24 x 24 inches. Razor cut.

Defensive Dragon

28 x 32 inches. Scissor cut.

Dandelion's Roar

24x24 inches razor cut. 2012.

Dragon's Backyard

22 x 28 inches. Scissor cut paper and colored pencils.

Pegasus's Soul

28.5 x 22 inches. Ink, scissor cut paper.

Old Dragon Recalls Their Youth

30 x 40 inches. Cut Paper.

Paper Rug

18 x 24 inches. Colored pencil and cut paper.

The Snail's Desire

20 x 20 inches. Cut paper.

Tainted With Risky Secrets

25.5 x 20 inches. Cut paper.

Dragon Hormones During Dragon Season

9 x 29 inches. Mixed media on hand cut paper.

Close The Door

24 x 17.5 inches. Ink, colored pencils, typewritten, cut paper.

The Geometry of a Hungry Cat

30 x 24 inches. Cut paper and colored pencils.

Lettuce Alone To Parrot Wonder

15 x 22 inches. Cut paper, colored pencil, typewritten.

The Philosophy of Bark

8 x 24 inches. Cut paper.

Dragon's Desire

30 x 40 inches. Cut paper.

Exactly What You'll Hear When You Rub A Dragon's Belly

30 x 24 inches. Cut paper.

Dragon's Thoughts

26 x 20 inches. Scissor cut paper.

The Dragon's Abode That's in Our Nooks and Crannies Somewhere

22 x 40 inches. Cut paper, acrylic.

The Whale's Tale

15.5 x 18 inches. Cut paper, colored pencil, ink.

When the Forest Lights the Fire

24 x 30 inches. Cut paper.

The Dragon Who Thinks It Is A Cat

30 x 24 inches. Cut paper.

Dragon's Blood

30 x 24 inches. Scissor cut paper.

Solar Prints

Poem Collages

Drawings

Animals, humans, shapes, spirits, bicycles, music and sighing.

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Healers and Dealers of the Ultimate Truth

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.

Public Art

Mural on the corner of 16th and Mineral Streets, Milwaukee.

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.

Little Free Library in Washington Park.

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!

Shadows

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14 Virtuous Undesirables

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.

The CLACKATHON

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!

View the entire clack a thon for free

footage: Jeanne DeSimone, Skyler Kroschel

editing: Skyler Kroschel

The clackathon championship cup

All photos by Helene Fischman

Gong artist

Musician Jo Ha

Yay Nay, our literary cheerleader

Played by artist Renee Bebeau

Song Man!

John Sieger

Clackathon host, Anja Notanja Sieger

Founder of La Prosette, 7th Pfister Hotel Narrator

Here comes "Astonishing!"

Writer Freesia McKee

"The Tipsy Typist"

Molly Snyder, journalist for OnMilwaukee, 6th Pfister Narrator.

"Clackmaster Ramsey"

Poet Laureate of Racine, Nick Ramsey.

"Balonica"

Performance artist Monica Joan

"The Mnemonic Moniker"

Poet Monica Thomas

"Clickety Clack Kashou"

Writer Jenna Kashou, 5th Pfister Narrator.

A request for a love letter

Megan McGee asks for a love letter to John.

An interview for an Insult Letter.

Jose Contreras offers some dirt about his brother Javier.

An Interview for a Letter From A Pet

Sarah McCure describes her cat Waffles' personality.

The championship cup post rumpus.

Yay Nay reads the scroll that was found in the mess:

"When art is subjective, a winner cannot be detected!"

Rehearsal

All photographs by Helene Fischman

Drowned Thoughts

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.”

Drowned Thoughts

Here is the video of the "Drowning Ceremony" for these thoughts.

Radiowaves From Space

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.