Opening November 7th at The Palace Gallery:
BONE CARNIVAL
Artworks by kAmA & Jampa Dorje
November 7-29, 2025
kAmA
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Jampa Dorje
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"The greatest spark of death is life and the greatest spark of life is death. When discovering the morbid or morose, color filters through the cracks in the suture, revealing the future and past merging with precise comedic timing. An everlasting glimpse puncturing the veil between seen and unseen, each bone was found in the wild or gifted to us as a talisman. The curvature of the remains forge unforeseen symbols to draw the eyes through the mind and expand into chromatic whimsy. Jampa and kAmA merged sensibilities to transmute what could be viewed as junk or useless into the essence of transmutation itself. This collection began on a walk through the alleys of Ellensburg gathering pieces of debris, including the discarded chicken bone that started it all. The quest for skeletal redemption later led to the burning of a vertebral column in a campfire atop the surrounding hills of the valley, found alongside a corresponding second vertebral column used in this work. A reminder that death, too, is a carnival; that the forbidden and grotesque are one with the divine sublime, an echo of those who precede us in birth or death, harmonized with those who follow us into eternity. May this Bone Carnival serve as an ecstatic yet miserable jubilee by whose current one may process grief through unprecedented humor and ironic juxtaposition. May it fill you with the emptiness of knowing nothing is forever, so everything must be." -kAmA
kAmA (Katherine Maria Camarata) is a writer, editor, circus/fire performer, massage therapist, vocalist, and ritual energy worker, studying psychology at CWU. She is based out of Fremont, Seattle//Ellensburg. They were born here in the ‘burg and resided here their whole life, until bi-locating to Seattle in 2024; the magnetism of the valley never relinquished their soul. She weaves anatomy education and ritual into her visual art to honor the fullest spectrum of life and death, and is eager to expand into every art form or medium they can sink their teeth into.
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"My work is a meditation on memory, transformation, and the tension between permanence and impermanence. Across three distinct series—wood assemblages, collage reinterpretations, and boxed sentimental constructs—I explore how materials, icons, and personal artifacts can be recontextualized to evoke new meaning."
Born from California fog, Jampa chants to cattle, brews poems in espresso, retreats into mandalas, and dreams Ellensburg into a library of moonlight outcuts. 
Jampa Dorje
This November 7th-29th join us at The Palace Gallery to welcome the co-creators of "Bone Carnival", JAMPA DORJE and kAmA.
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