Goldenrod

This Friday is the opening for Offerings, an 80-person collaborative project , at Little Berlin Gallery in North Philly (Front & Montgomery). I'll have a pair of sculptures showing from a collaborative project with another sculptor.

The project started out as 20 groups of 4 strangers, thrust together to coordinator, collaborate and end up with some sort of art project, to be shown in the gallery this June. Each group's members can't know each other, and can't spend over $50. These were the only requirements.

My group was almost immediately down to two people, with one officially bowing out and another disappearing. I think I will include a copy of his text messages as part of my documentation for the project. My remaining cohort and I brainstormed and clicked well, I think.

Unfortunately, our schedules do not click. Still. Maybe we should have collaborated via text message. Two brainstorm sessions and numerous missed connections through and we're down to the wire, and thankfully I picked up her contribution. A few hours in the studio, and viola! ART!

Here's a teaser, taken from my phone, text message progress report to my cohort, who is in Corning, NY right now for a workshop. Text messaging; it's the new telegram.