wow. it has been a crazy eight or nine months let me tell you. Our second child was born (forgot to post about that) the monotheatrum ended its run at the AGH (i forgot to post about the 20 musicians who occupied the structure on closing weekend), and then i participated in a collaborative work at the Gladstone Hotel as part of UpArt (forgot to post about that). And now 2009 is already full steam in gear, and I have exhibitions at Latcham Gallery and Rodman Hall, performances at Cambridge Gallery, at the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues festival in B.C., plus all kinds of other stuff. Naturally, I started this year in a complete funk, and tried to work through it by cleaning up the studio and making odd looking shields out the half ton of wooden debris, trying to concoct fast simple ways of inlaying chunky pieces of wood into other chunky pieces of wood. The results are somewhat mixed, I think.Yesterday, I put in the first official hours thinking about the ways I will construct the next performance stage.
It is a much less architectural piece, more intuitive, more poetic perhaps, essentially based on the notion of recreating a dense forest around the performance area as the focal obstruction. I have an idea what it will look like. I'll post a drawing in the coming days.
cheers
