Install Restart

Back in Kanata

Straight to work installing Fourth Nature at the Confed. Art Gallery in Charlottetown, PEI.

Pan Wendt, curator, has complied a wacky group of artists for an exhibit titled 

Free Parking...addressing Parks and Park culture.

Been a busy install.

Arches, Arrows, giant feathers,live bee's, honeycombs and a little girl emerging from the art, dancing to her hearts content.

John Greer's cast bronze feather, 9 feet tall, anchored to the floor!

The gallery archer shooting across the mezzanine, targeting a hidden image, into the gallery wall.

Was brilliant!

This is my buddy Michael Fernandes piece...in progress.

 The archers practice bruise cause she didn't wear an arm guard...a masterpiece made of skin and blood.

Fernandes building the fire.  Still waiting for the image reveal.  

 Aganetha Dyck's Lobster trap beehive.

The bees will hopefully build up some wax on sections of the trap...am excited to see how this will evolve.

My favorite install moment of all time just occurred.

A collaboration between Ingrid (the curators daughter) and my work.

Magical!

Later we choreographed a bubble wrap dance in front of Andrea Mortson's paintings with Hans Wendt's classical piano musings rising up from some unseen corner of the gallery.

Sublime!

Bubble Wrap Dance Video!

Ode to Elsewhere Part Uno

A few images of all the extraordinary works and re-workings inside Elsewhere

Was a visually stimulating, tactile environment to call home for a month.

But time is relative and one month literately felt like one lifetime!

 a couple of traces a left on the bedroom wall

Ode to Elsewhere Part duex

You know how it is

how in even a month...in a single blip of time

one can fall in love with those around them?

god love our eccentricities

 and god love america

but seriously...god love all us creative kooks killing it under the radar

even Biscuitville can be a place for the meeting of the minds

early morning awe on the elevated spiritual intelligence of Islamic tile patterning

 constant cogitations and doings and goings on

 ideas

 and revelations

 and missing links

 more research needed

 just getting it done (and looking sexy doing it!)

 saucy dissertations

consult the I-Brain

and dont forget to drink plenty of water

it's fucking hot out

and we keep poking the analytical poker into the burning embers of endless thought

at risk of getting burnt

 but all those sparks are so fucking brilliant

 and dont

 forget to

work your thing all along the way sisters and brothers!

 stay up late and ruminate

 make your head spin at the state of things

tell stories, make myths, and conclude nothing

and no matter WHAT....dont forget to go jump in the lake

and shock yourself back into what is real

water, sky, tree, dirt

 Nick found a toad in the hole

 all these

 

beautiful

 people

 doing

 beautiful

things

and of course, as per my ways since childhood, the pups, always the pups

This is Maggie and Patches, neighbor Dave's dogs

they were first thing in the morning coffee and toast buddies

and sometimes walking buddies

 goodnight friends new, old and eternal

see you down the road