back in LA. lalaland? so it's called.
glad to be back. i put my toes in the ocean and i was home.
i went to the gallery yesterday to discuss the upcoming show,
and found my confidence renewed.
the idea was always to communicate something of the intensity, the very specific intensity of the experience of katrina, to people who wouldn't otherwise comprehend it.
and now, being back around people who have no grounds on which to get it, my mission is clear again.
the pieces i need to tell the story are clear.
...so i have my work cut out for me.
about 2 months and i would like to create at least a half dozen more pieces.
so my plan to return to life-as-usual here in LA is being nearly abandoned.
I will do my best to fill a room with---
that sense of loss walking through the neighborhood you grew up in, looking from house to house, recognizing and remembering friends and neighbors you once played with or barbequed with, now just a shell of a building, lifeless. a skeleton. a ghost town. of your most intimate places.
um..tee hee. i suppose i'm still working out how to verbalize it.
maybe i'll use this as a forum to refine my artists statement.
maybe that's precisely what i've been doing.
i'll post details about the show soon.
the opening is likely to be the weekend of march 31.
the gallery is:
http://www.orphanage-art.com
(currently called the orphanage, but the name is going to change to 'Found' I believe)
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