Nice of them to tell me...

Back in November or December I responded to a call to artists for contributions to a show at Mass MoCA and Cabinet Magazine's Gallery in Brooklyn organized by Regine Basha of Cabinet. The show was called An Exchange with Sol LeWitt. I am always glad to participate in such events. My time working at the LeWitt Collection and working with Sol was an amazing time in my life. I made some great friends and my experiences there influenced me a great deal. Anytime I can connect with Sol now that he is has passed on is a great privilege.

The concept of the show was that people could contribute anything they wanted, be it a small work of art or some other meaningful object as a tribute. Basically it could be anything that a person could connect to his or her relationship with Sol. I made a photo copy of one of my small drawings and wrote a little note to Sol on it. After I left the collection Sol and I exchanged some correspondence in the mail. He wasn't much for small talk or phone calls, but he loved to send postcards with little drawings on them. So my contribution was a nod to those interactions I had with him.

My work was selected for the show at Mass MoCA. Awesome, right? Sure. But what would have been more awesome is if they had told me where my work was or when the opening was or anything at all since I submitted the work. To be fair, I had kind of pushed the show to the back of my mind with the holidays going on and starting massage school right after. If I had my head on straight I would have Googled the event or something. That I admit. But I received no communication at all until last week when the organizer emailed everyone to ask who wanted to pick up their work. Mine was more or less a piece of ephemera so never intended on picking it up. That was fine for the show's parameters. But c'mon, man. Could you drop a guy an email? I don't know. Maybe they tried and I missed it. It's possible, but some how I doubt it.

Oh, well. At least I get to put Mass MoCA on the ol' resume. I am still very grateful for the opportunity.

Massage Therapy/Art Connection

I have been extremely lax in my posts and for that I apologize. I have been spending every free moment studying bones and muscles and practicing strokes for my massage therapy course.

My artist friend, Melanie (whose web content you can find linked on my website) has suggested a collaboration. Some of her work consists of furniture-like structures made to cradle, house or otherwise support the human body in various positions. Stay with me here. She expressed an interest in the draping and positioning of the body for various massage therapy techniques. She was also interested in the construction and versatility of the massage table.

I think if we can piggyback on her previous work and incorporate what I'm learning into some kind of interactive draping/human positioning performance piece... or something. All this stuff is still in it's infant stages. But I would love to explore this further and create something collaborative. I haven't done anything like that in a long time. Time to start brain storming.