About Free Life Center.
“Mark Warren Jacques and Seth Neefus are two Portland-based artists embarking on a dream. Free Life Center houses their optimism and creativity, and you are invited to join them as they take their mobile art center on a nomadic journey.
Mark and Seth are artists, musicians, skateboarders, friends, and idealists, seeking pleasure in the sublime. They lift up a gentle ideology that favors peace, love, and personal freedom that, when combined with creative manifestations of their artistic practice, has naturally evolved into an entire environment and life experience. Inspired by the community of free thinkers around them, they bring knowledge of earthy spirituality and simplicity to encourage others to share the “free life” through music, art, skillshare, storytelling, and creativity.
Free Life Center is a large-scale freestanding installation crafted from salvaged building materials. The structure emanates the artists’ homespun aesthetic and their commitment to a high level of craftsmanship. The construction is composed of modular materials that can be adapted to suit a variety of configurations along their journey, whether it is a traditional gallery space or a site-specific event outdoors. The Free Life Center will be broken down and transported in their veggie oil truck, another nod to sustainability and environmentally friendly practices.
These vagabond dreamers will host exhibitions, community events, musical performances, workshops, drawing parties, and more within the walls of the Free Life Center at all stops along the way. From the structure itself, to the art, inspiration, and experimental bliss of their newest project, Mark and Seth hope to spread ideas that can lead to a more healthy, happy, and creative free life.”
