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Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010
Volume 44, Issue 6
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Sculptress takes a new direction By Joshua Baird Arts & Culture Editor We have all heard of waxing philosophical, but have you ever heard of artistic wax? That is exactly what Kandace Collins of Ashland used as a medium for her art exhibit on display in the Alexander Gallery located on Clackamas Community College’s Oregon City Campus. “I was working with wax probably for about two years, and out of that came two large-scale pieces. The first one and this one are sort of related to each other,” said Collins. “I like the movement of it,” said student Rebekkah Weakley. “It really feels like it’s moving and it has a kind of white and … ghost-like luminance that I like. My art teacher said that there is beauty in simplicity, and I really see that here.” “There are two related pieces. They are separate but related,” said Collins, who used a 50-50 combination of microcrystalline wax and paraffin wax to make them. “The structure that’s on the floor is one that’s meant to be entered and so I wanted to make a structure that looked and seemed inviting. I wanted people to be invited into the structure. I also wanted the broken bricks to … guide you to walk around the back of the structure and interact with it.” Unfortunate events sometimes can happen when a sculptor sets out to display their work. This happened while Collins set out to put all of the bricks into place. “The structure was completely built and was about eight feet tall, and after it was finished I was making some really
minor adjustments to it and the whole top – I would say about three or four feet – just totally fell off into the middle of the structure and also to the sides,” Collins said, “so I had in the middle of the structure a whole bunch of broken bricks and pieces of bricks. “I took those pieces that broke and turned them into the wall piece and the wall piece is the exact width of one of the bricks, more or less. It’s four inches wide, so I wanted that to reference a brick that was whole.” Kate Simmons of the CCC Art Department enjoyed the display. “What I really appreciate about the work is its very minimalist in nature, and the material really lends itself to the process that it’s undergone to become the forms that they are. (For example,) the repetition of using the casting process to create this mass and command the space; the same as the wall pieces that she has done,” she said. Collins has been working with sculpture for several years, since attending Portland Community College where she first tried her hand at stone carving. “For me, as soon as I was working in a threedimensional medium, I felt like this is exactly what I need, this is exactly how I need to express. I immediately took to it; I immediately felt like that is what I wanted to do as far as artistically speaking,” said Collins. After that she began to expand her focus into wax. “She has another piece that she didn’t display that is wax hands, and I love the simplicity of all white,” said Kelly White, the art department secretary. “Sometimes pieces get too loud and too distracting, so her consistency with shape
and color and form is … eye catching.” Collins isn’t staying with wax, though, and has moved on to other mediums for her current projects. “I haven’t been working in wax at all (recently); the two large scale pieces that I made in wax were enough for now. I’m not doing any casting at all,” she
said. “Now I’m working with found objects that I alter or use them in a different context. It’s a different direction, but it’s still multiple or repetitive actions.” The display runs through Dec. 10 and can be viewed during school hours in Alexander Gallery.
Nathan Sturgess Clackamas Print
A CCC student admires the eight-foot tall masterpiece created by Kandace Collins out of microcrystalline wax and paraffin wax. The structure is open for viewing in the Alexander Gallery in Niemeyer until Dec. 10.
Dedicated adviser scheduled to leave beloved position By Pamela Hollis The Clackamas Print If you have had the pleasure of meeting advising specialist Paul Creighton, you will be sorry to hear he is leaving the “family” at Clackamas Community College. His last day to assist students with their placements onto the pathways they will follow will be Jan. 16, 2011. Paul decided that he would like to follow a career course toward nursing, which he learned through an assessment test he was taking to help advise the students. “Two and a half years ago we
had to learn how to do these career assessments so we could show the students how to correctly do them,” said Paul. “It is ironic; this was supposed to make me better at my job, and in turn, it is leading me away from here.” Paul has been at Clackamas since he started here as a student in 1998. He did leave for a few years to get his a master’s degree in teaching at the University of Oregon; he came back and has found CCC to be a lot like a home to him. “I love this place. It is very comfortable. It is more than comfortable; it is my home. I love it,” said Paul.
Leaving Clackamas was a hard decision to make, but Paul feels that he has gone as far as he would like to on the ladder of college. “The higher I climb, the farther away I get from the students. It is the students I like best of all. I like to sit down and be face to face with them. I want them right here, I want to meet with each one of them,” he said. Paul pursued the findings in his assessment and won a scholarship from Providence Hospital to get his bachelor’s degree in nursing at Portland State University. The program he will be entering is 20 months long, and after completion
he has committed to a three-year contract working for Providence. “I thought I was terrified of needles, disgusted by fluids and body stuff,” said Paul. “It turns out I am fascinated by the idea of infections and fluids and body stuff. The assessment test worked.” While in school, most of his income will come from music. Paul is the lead vocalist in the band Intervision. Paul and the band play all over and he writes a lot of the lyrics for the songs he sings. Intervision is definitely a pleasure for Paul, who started playing trumpet and singing in choir when he was in the fifth grade.
Intervision first came together in 2003. At the time the band’s drummer Jon Barber, guitarist Tony Stovin and then-bass player Mike Glidden were playing together under the name Stovin. They asked Paul to start singing with them and soon after asked Kit Taylor to join on keyboard. “We did our first photo shoot, completed some tunes together and were off and running before long,” Taylor stated in an e-mail. “Within a few months we changed our name to Intervision 5 and a few years after, to Intervision.” Please see PAUL, Page 3