Some of you might have heard about my car accident a week and a half ago. I'm ok, but my car is not. I'm still on the look out for a new vehicle. If you know anyone in the San Antonio area selling a good used car, please let me know.
The accident has set my work back some. I lost some crucial tools after or during the day of the accident, it's a little hazy. I'm limited to my bus routes for transportation. Meeting people to test drive rides has been frustrating via SA via.
One of my other projects involves a lot of searching for antiquated office equipment, so the search for these has gone online, mostly to eBay. It has actually proved successful, almost everything I need is in the mail and on the way. It just is costing me more, but at least I can find almost anything I want...
Except I still need:
(1) steel 1960's-ish office desk with or without drawers,.
(2) swivel office chairs, on wheels; looking something like that era as well. If you have these, or know where to get things of this sort please let me know.
I also need crowd control barriers, (stanchions), like the ones you see at banks; two posts with velvet rope. I've located a dealer that sells those cheap, but I would prefer to rent or borrow those. Any leads, I would be much appreciative.
And all of this is difficult on foot and bus. But it's not so bad. I catch up on reading and lots of NPR while riding the bus. It's nice to decompress after long days with a relaxing ride home.
This recent project will be featured at the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, opening next month. The performances will be First Thursday and First Friday, possible for April as well. After that, documentation in the forms of typewritten messages and a short video along with my staged office will remain in the gallery. I'll be shooting the work somehow, hopefully with help of others. I hope to learn more about Final Cut and edit the footage down. I'd like to make something really slick looking, but as long as it's clean and easily read, I just need a short clip to play in the gallery to give some insight to what had previously transpired.
Also on the plate. I've been working with images from others, namely their social networking images. This has become the "sample source" of a new series that is slowly moving on. I won't say too much about this, maybe some images as they start to surface.
Other considerations:
Is a "take away" receipt or souvenir important in my gallery piece? (This would be in shape of a carbon copy of a message, somehow maybe "authenticated" by me.)
If I invited you to sit down and type me a letter or line, then I'll type back, what would you say? Would these kinds of conversations take the form of old letters, or the more recent nonsense banter that is found on twitter?
What do we really have to say?
I hope to slow down the process, and make conversation something more substantial and meaningful. But will this work out for most of the time while in a First Friday setting? Or will messages be like "Dude, they have free beer and food here..." "College..."
How do I deal with questions? Hard questions, bad questions, questions with really obvious answers.
Can I handle typing non stop for four to five hours?
Should I take contact information? Should I give out my contact information? Or should this be kept strictly as the work in the gallery, being the work? If you weren't there, you missed it?
Ok. Back to work. More later.
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