Thanks. Patrick. (& Doug & Shelia). My mom now has an imaginary friend, "Simone", with whom she has nightly dialogs, so I might well have to put up some defenses against an "overthrow" .
I remember when my daughter, Pearl, (circa age 4) had an imaginary friend, Jessica, with whom she would carry frequent conversations for about a year. Then one day it all stopped. When I asked what happened to Jessica, "Oh, she got run over and killed by a car." and that was the end of that. Curious how the phenomenon shd return with my elderly mom!
Sometimes I think poetry is an imaginary friend with whom we carry on this curious dialog about ourselves, community, world, etc.
And "in and out" dementia is a curious thing. On the phone, when I ask my mom whether or not she is also going to wish me a "Happy Easter", she says, "I don't why to do that. You have enough women in your life already!" & so it goes.
--- On Sun, 4/12/09, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: Re: Stephen Vincent, One Day Obama Exhibit, Wednesday, April 29th!
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Date: Sunday, April 12, 2009, 11:08 PM
Stephen watch outthat your mum does not turn up and take over
Bests Patrick
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Sent: 11 April 2009 00:23
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Subject: Stephen Vincent, One Day Obama Exhibit, Wednesday, April 29th!
For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, please mark this event on your
calenders! Otherwise,
�there will be a book, limited and unlimited. Contact the Gallery for
details.
Stephen Vincent, in progress still with Obama, haptics et al at
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Stephen Vincent
The First 100 Days of Obama
One-Day Exhibition
Wednesday, April 29, 11am-8pm
Opening Reception,
6-8pm
Steven Wolf Fine Arts will mark day 100 of the Barack Obama
administration with a one-day show of drawings by the artist and poet
Stephen Vincent and their publication in a book titled The First 100
Days of Obama.
Vincent is making one abstract, black and white
ink drawing of the same size each day for the first 100 days of the
Obama administration as part of a series he calls haptics, a word that
describes how the body sensually responds to and interprets stimuli
from the outside world. Each drawing is captioned with the date,
location and a brief description of the goings-on around the artist at
the time of the drawing.
At approximately 10 x 7 inches, the drawings are close variations on a theme;
randomness tangles with predictability, abstraction with the faint hint
of a figure or symbol as they take their flat, pillow form. Like a
diary of meditations, they form a partial record of Vincent�s thoughts
and movements on those days, and offer a stark contrast to the political
machinations
taking place in Washington even as they temporally mirror them. Mounted
in a grid at the gallery, the drawings will cover 588 square feet of
wall space.
The show aspires to a nutty ceremonial numerology in
which the diurnal drawing process, the publication of the book and the
target day all harmonically converge. In order for Vincent to remain
true to the one-a-day drawing schedule and still make that deadline the
gallery will have to run a relay race with its digital publisher who
must turn around the final design, printing, binding and shipping in
under 24 hours�the frenetic busywork another mirror of the activity in
Washington. The first 25 copies of the book will arrive in the gallery
with 99 images and one blank page. To draw the project to a close
Vincent will work all day in the gallery to create a unique work on
page 100 of these volumes. The remaining 75 books will be printed a few
days later with the full set of 100 reproductions.
The opening
will offer Vincent and guests the opportunity to reflect on the
changing political landscape and for Vincent to read from texts he
created at the time he made the drawings: one day he was on a bench at Dolores
Park,
dogs, trolleys and ambulances in the background; another day he was
switching channels from Keith Olberman�s Countdown to NBA basketball;
and on yet another he was recalling the night sky over Mercy Hot
Springs near Firebaugh,
miles away from the world of politics. Vincent is as likely to seek out
silence as he is music when he works and the ordinary as often as the
unusual. At time these modest drawings bob alongside the rushing
political change in Washington like a tiny buoy marking a small
personal craft; at other times their zen-master repititiousness
underscores perhaps a deeper social and political reality that while
the details in Washington change the soap opera stays the same.
Steven Wolf Fine Arts
49 Geary Street, Suite 411
San Francisco, CA 94108
415-263-3677
www.stevenwolffinearts.co
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