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About WTF?!
Like trying to read the graffiti on a freight train of shipping containers while driving 75 MPH on Interstate 10, I am grasping for knowledge, humor, and beauty on social media.
Rage and desperation are temporarily soothed by dark humor, astrology, and funny cat videos. Late-stage capitalism, reckonings, fires, floods, and loss are my unhappy obsessions. The search for dopamine hits, empathy, and thoughtfulness keeps me going, but really, WTF?
While searching for wisdom, positivity, and inspiration in chaos, something like happiness appears briefly, then it’s lost. The search begins again for a life raft in the rough seas of social evolution.
WTF, a solo exhibition
September 5 - 28, 2025 at Five15 Gallery@ Chartreuse
1301 NW Grand Avenue, PHX
Fridays 6-9 pm, Sat-Sun 11 am-2 pm
or by appointment
WTF?!- Fiber art series
Wendy Raisanen’s newest solo exhibition, “WTF”, running from September 5 – 28, 2025, at Five15Arts @ Chartreuse, a cooperative gallery in downtown Phoenix, features fine art quilts that depict important disruptions in American society and the anxiety of social media addiction.
Intricately pieced, intensely hued fabric quilts, some combined with paintings, depict disasters and social media memes expressing the beauty and tragedy of today. Images of loose shipping containers floating in water, a plantation fire, and other frustrating events are featured in detailed, fabric quilts.
