No Hell-Cats for Tammi Rae!

PART 2 OF GOD BLESS GLITTER GLUE AND PUGICORNS!

I'm just gonna start this entry out by blasting you with the bad news.... Tammi Rae Jenson.... is no more. Whether or not she really got into heaven is debatable, but the fact remains, she no longer exists. But before I tell you what happened to her, I'm going to tell you what I knew of Tammi. Its not much, seeing as how I only just heard of her four days ago. Or maybe I did know all there is to know about Tammi. She graduated from High School, she works at Chili's restaurants, she has type 2 diabetes, lives with her sick aunt, and loves to paint with glitter. Oh and also she is a religious zealot. Tammi probably doesn't even know what a zealot is, but if its anything like a Hell-Cat she'll have nothing to do with it, thank you very much! All she knows about a zealot is its a word used quite frequently by all the 'critics' who grace her comments' sections with their very wise and [obviously] intellectually superior interpretations of her art. Here are just a few of the more brilliant assertations I was able to gather from some of Tammi's wildflower gardens she'd scattered around the interweb...

-Huh?

-Your zealotry knows no limits, does it?

-I'm hoping like hell that she's not old enough to vote. It is people like this young woman who are clinging to propaganda of political parties under the guise of religion that are ruining our country. My advice would be a lot of college and perhaps a little exposure to the rest of the world beyond whatever church or town you are a part of. And by the way, our president is named Barack Obama, not "The Obama".

-OMG! red glitter! In the words of the maker: “supream”. High school diplomas must be easier to come by in Texas?

-A fundy who apparently celebrates Halloween. Interesting.

-the fuck is a pugicorn?

-I would not buy anything from someone who couldn't at least spell 'vain' or 'celebrity' correctly. And that art was made by a 4th grader. I swears.

-it's crap

-I think as an Christian I am not fond of the way she is *witnessing* and as an artist had her painting were on the wall of a class for a critique it would have been picked apart.

and finally... I saved the best one for last...

um.... i don't think so. Obviously this person has a problem with something, but instead of finding an artistic way to express it, they make this crap with their idea and feelings more clearly expressed in their hateful writing than their artwork. Now I'm all about expressing some type of disagreement or loathing through art work.

A good example would be a piece that I created not so long ago. It is untitled still, but its as follows (I'm not brave enough to post a pic.) Its the scene of jesus hanging on the cross. Only in my scene you have a view of the entire hill, and no one is hanging on the other two crosses beside jesus. At jesus's feet and spread all across the hill are some fairly gruesome dead bodies.

My piece was created because I find it very funny that christian live for the day that they will die. And all over a man that they can only learn about through shards of ancient and often mistranslated literature. And yes I have thoroughly enjoyed this uninvited chance to brag on myself. Thanx for listening!!!

Now, some of those comments are from her flickr page, some from her blog, others are from the regretsy listing I mentioned in my last entry, and the rest, in particular that last one, are from a post I made about Tammi Rae in one of my new 'mommy' groups. Its another mommy website's Hot Topics type boards that I recently joined and have, so far, not made any real waves *snore*. In my post on my new hot mommy topics board I asked "Is this really art?" and the overwhelming response was "NO"! Some did say that while they didn't like it, they could see how others might think its art. The thing that's really cool, though, is I knew something about Tammi Rae that the other mommies didn't know. Something that you, the reader of this, probably still don't know.

Actually, I know a few things. One of the things I know is whenever we are confronted with an anonymous internet persona that appears to be inferior in any way to us, we immediately know and understand everything that is wrong with that person. The reason for this is, it is much easier to look down on people(as opposed to looking up to them) and recognize what they are doing wrong.

Thankfully, there are some people who are able to see past the blinding, glittery, extreme surface of something to find its redeeming qualities. Let's just take a look at some of the content of Tammi's work and try to see what exactly is so bad about it...

In one piece she says "Hellcats do not love people. Demons want to harm you, not be your sexy friend. Do not take candy from demons. They will feed you poison. Love Jesus." This is from probably my favorite painting of Tammi Rae's. Its very similar to the Heidi Montag piece with the pretty, bright, red, sparkly, glittery flames of hell that make my heart shine! :D But this one, as you can see here, features what must obviously be a Hellcat (should that be capitalized?) instead of a picture of Heidi Montag after a 6 day whiskey, oxycoton, and slim-fast bender. I don't know what fate this delightful painting met but I'm looking at a good spot on my wall above my desk where I'm sure it would feel right at home, reminding me everyday that demons are not my sexy friends, and hellcats do not really love me, despite my deepest desires to be loved by the evil hellcats. I try not to sin and be bad, but its hard to remember. I need this painting. I noticed on another artist's blog that this particular painting is up for grabs, but I'm scared to even ask what to offer, as I've never bought original art before. Its scarey like a hell-cat to even consider. X_X

How I found out what happened to Tammi Rae is what I started to describe in my last entry about my scroll down the comment tree of that Regretsy post Heidi Ho. In that comment tree something mystical and more whimsical than I could have ever hoped for happened, it was inspiring, and comfortably familiar... and I'll get to that in part 3, which should probably be called "A Wild Troll Appears!"