memory and mapping and uganda

Dreams: visiting my grandmother's old home/building in the Bronx...and seeing it strangely deteriorated...as if eroded by time(ages)....the roofline (of all the buildings on the street) jagged, the windows open and glassless and full with mud/sand.

'Real Life':
thoughts on memory and space again.

visited a gallery I'm looking forward to showing in (art + architecture) and spoke with the owner for a long while about all sorts of things...including memory palaces and virtual worlds. She's planning out the next year of exhibitions and wants to do something with me.:)

Finally a full studio day today...painting on a new set of 12" circle pieces....in the studio and at the kitchen table...mappings and water. I need long stretches of time to really fall IN to the ideas..to this other realm. Wish i could just be a hermit for a while with no other responsibilities..and let this all blossom.

also playing with the paper beads again...with pinheads they become people...tiny little dolls in ethnic-looking dress...and this seems so strangely right too. I am reaching in my mind to Uganda and want to SEE...so I go load up Google Earth and fly around. Cannot see Gulu...but then nearby I find a clear section and zoom in...I fly around the farmland and clear land...and happen upon a strange pattern...which extends very far...thousands of little earth colored bumps..??...which i later find to be



huts in a huge camp for displaced persons....
:(!!
this sinks in differently now...the scale of it.

and I am there in shapes and thoughts...mixing materials, combining stories...of where everyone is and what is happening right now here and there and everywhere at once.

studio

falling into the artworks again...nice feeling...
many going at once...little worlds...painting..and
letting all else fall away

though I think of friends and loved ones and even strangers often during the process. feel an odd sense of longing. don't want to stop working...but want to hug everyone...? love you all. hoping you're all ok.

listening to music...right now it's Ani Difranco 'To the Teeth'

xo
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Andrea Cote- Performance

my friend Andrea Cote's recent performance at ArtSites in Riverhead (photos by Tom Kochie):







Do take a look at her website. SO glad she moved out here, I'm refreshed. She also co-curated a show on view in NYC right now called 'Posing'- at the Henry Street Abrons Art Center press release until Nov12. go see!