It has been a long, but wonderful weekend. Packed full of revelations, and findings. There are not many times you can say that about a weekend.
Friday night John and I went to an art show opening at MCBA. Their current exhibit features work from many many artists, and is leading to a publication that will include those artists plus many more. The deadline for the publication has not passed yet, and I am planning in participating. My entry will be something like this:
Printed on the image with an old iron hand press will be:
He wasn’t stealing information exactly,
He was just borrowing data.
1’s and 0’s from others here
and stringing them together to make a new person
someone she might open up to.
On Sunday we went for a long walk, finding a path we never knew about before, and one that I hadn’t walked for around 10 years or so.
The one I hadn’t walked for 10 years was surprisingly a lot like the way I had left it. It was a place shown to me by a friend a long time ago, and was once-upon-a-time a backdrop for many self portrait projects while I was in college. It is hidden back in St. Paul quite a ways away from most of the places everyone here knows. I can’t even give very good directions to get there. I have tried to find it again a couple of times before, but I was never able to. On Sunday, things fell into place, and for some reason, I was allowed to find it again. The images are a little dark. Both are Polaroids, and, well, these things happen with polaroids sometimes. But I think, that there is also a certain feel to them, and that feeling is reflected in the place. I guess what I’m trying to say is no, they are not my best images, but they captured what I was feeling and what I wanted to take back from that place and sometimes, that is what you are looking for more than a perfect image.
j:Are you still there?
q:That’s a dumb question…
you know i am always here.
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j:hello? is anyone here?
q:i am
j:who are you?
q:does it really matter who i am?
j:what are you?
q:that doesn’t really matter either.
j:where are you from?
q:everywhere.
It was a good weekend. On to the week.
~Peace~