New Artist at Libation Station…

Libation Station

presents
the oil pastels
of

Kathleen Faulkner

during the months of July and August

A jewelry artist for over 20 years, Kathleen has been working in oil pastel since 2005.  Although Kathleen is still very involved in jewelry work, she is finding that the oil pastels are her preferred medium.

'Heading East' 23x21" oil pastel; Kathleen Faulkner

Born and raised in Seattle, Kathleen’s home and studio are located in Anacortes where she has lived for many years.   Her love of the Pacific Northwest  is the inspiration for her work:

“I am interested in telling stories.. giving form to memories of times and places.  It is an attempt to glimpse the essence of this place in the world that is sometimes referred to as the Magic Skagit, where the mountains meet the sea, Salish Sea, that is.”

For more information about Kathleen visit:

kathleenfaulkner.blogspot.com.

 

Chicken any and every way… and Manseng…

I’m putting together orders for next week for a French wine packed tightly with a grape called Manseng and in this instance, it will be the white varietal. It is phenomenal with any and all things chicken, specifically one’s from Well Fed Farms due to the flavor intensities and fiber-esque firmness associated with fowl raised that proper, but that is our not so humble opinion. This wine also grabs the brininess out of shellfish and really adheres it to your senses with it’s own acidic-saline characteristics. That means you can slam oysters and douse them in a most happily slithering way.

I will only be bringing this in for next month’s Wine Club and whomever else wishes to preorder some and of course, for my own personal stash… because I’m an only child.

Orders must be in by Tuesday morning

$13/btl    

(club member quantity discounts apply)

The 95pt Reyvaan Syrah is completely gone unless a bottle or two falls off the truck heading elsewhere and my sales rep happens to be around to catch it. Rumor has it, it is being designated by the winery as restaurant pour only so it still will be accessible though probably at $80-$150 per bottle.

 

Wine as Dada… or Dada as wine…

… or, drink it if you will, or pour it on your head, in your pockets, and gargle with it if you will. Or drink it with foods that make no sense and is a revolting match. This concept could also apply to beer and cocktails but I think as far as anti-art goes, wine seems a more apropos marketable item for desecration, specifically with a culture least likely to not take itself so seriously, identifying itself as art and with all things art and thus by default, setting its many-times pretentious self up for the application.

I’ve would have never thought of applying Dadaism to wine culture until recently. I, like many in this biz have been perfectly happy letting wine do its thing as long as its thing was allowed to go merrily about being done… and without being accosted. Enter label branding and Costco.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Costco. I love going there for a whole day and not buying anything. I love pretending to be an employee, restacking the messy jean pile with the inhuman sizes on top and helping folks get the right palette of printer cartridges. I love checkout line antics, entering and exiting the wrong doors while flashing my passport, and watching the widescreen TV’s on leather lounges with a Polish and pop in hand. Costco is love.

But the stress to market and sell the maximum amount of everything has gotten a little beyond ridiculous. And since ridiculous can beget ridiculous… enter Dada. Enter Wine Dada. Enter the Dada Apothecary and Wine Shoppe where anti-wine is poured for the disillusionment of the masses.

…or not.

Side note… there appears to be an actual Dada brand of wine. This latest blurb is by no means associated with that brand as far as its promotion or degradation. It somewhat confuses me. Anti-Dada anti-brand Dada?

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