Every September, the Time Based Art Festival (TBA) kicks off what I think of as “art season” in Portland. The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) brings artists from around the world (and local favorites, too) to their headquarters and various other locations around town to present work that is often beautiful, sometimes challenging, and every once in a while completely mind-blowing. One year, a gentle-sounding film ostensibly about stars left many attendees practically speechless,...