SALTY - NG XI JIE 黄晞竭 - THE COSMOS WAIT FOR YOU
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  • The Alternative Moby-Dick Marathon
  • A Whaling Descendant Performs In Four Acts
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  • The Grandma Reporter
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  • How are you? I'm good, how are you? I'm good.
  • Autumn Weaves
  • I would sit on his lap
  • The City Seal of Portland, Oregon
  • Portland Tropical Gardens
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  • Pickled 菜心相印
  • It has been suggested that more is known about the moon than the deepest parts of the ocean
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  • The Handbook of Everyday Secrets
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  • The Swan of Tuonela
  • The Silence Experiments
  • Museum of Things I Want to Forget
  • I am a beautiful beached whale by the Straits
  • Oomoonbeings
  • Wishmoon
  • Leo XIII Dream
  • Post-Love
  • experiments & some images

The City Seal of Portland, Oregon

Part of Assembly 2018 organised by the Portland State University art and social practice graduate program 
City Hall, Portland OR, USA
"In 1878, a committee picked a Mr. C. A. Bjourkman’s design to be that of the Portland city seal. In today’s City Hall atrium lies a podium emblazoned with our seal. In this session we will each design a new city seal based on what we think represents Portland today. From all the designs, including those by incarcerated individuals at the Columbia River Correctional Institution and kids at Martin Luther King, Jr. School, a vote and ceremony (featuring the figure of Portlandia performed by Emma Colburn) will take place to pick today’s updated Portland City Seal, and the result will be officially proposed to City Hall."

The winning design by Daniel Bluestein referenced an 1879 late submission design with the words HIYU CHUCK, HIYU SALMON. According to my research, that means PLENTY WATER, PLENTY SALMON in Chinook language. The winning design was later presented to Mary Hull, City Auditor and Keeper of the City Seal.

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​Research

​Event at City Hall
Images by Anke Schüttler, Tia Kramer, Salty
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Portlandia performance by Emma Colburn and acceptance speech by winning designer Daniel Bluestein


​the cosmos wait for you



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