ARCHIVES FROM INTERIM.

MAY 30 2007
we have our new studio / artspace partners : lily, scott & georgia. june 1st cory and burgess will be leaving: cory for ventura and burgess for humbolt county.
we have been cleaning and fixing and rebuilding and moving things around. it is so healthy. i am sad for change - nostalgia always blurs vision - but i know all this change is good. we will be more organized as a collective, and more able to keep things at a managable - thriving - place.
after all that has happened - i feel nothing is shocking or death ordeal, yet i will always fight the sub-level stress. what we do is daring, even though it is getting more organized - i forget - what we do is daring, and takes an immense amount of energy and strength. we are getting more help now too, and will grow according to our resources, not outgrow our ability to live.
il corral is a beautiful place, still just on wobbly 2 year old phrases, but walking bravely toward something new.
love.

WYLIE'S ART FOR THE MASSES WITH EXPERIMENTAL SHOW:
we've been lucky to have wylie's art around for many months now, and it's time for his proper opening. so june 16th at 8 pm we'll have an event to be followed at 10 pm by an experimental show.
wylie himself will be playing, probably upright bass (wow) and will be joined by other fantastic composers:
Mark SoRaven Chacon Pixelform
more info as the time comes closer.

so the sidewalk sale was a success! our neighborhood is full of things now in exchange for which we will pay rent on this sub.avant.garde castle.
we have been cleaning - ready for our new people to join! i think you will like them as much as i do. they are good and down.to.earth. artists in a purity of humble warehouse living. it is hard to work here sometimes, in the cave - so much better surely than previous sweatshop that was here - but nonetheless it can become stifling.
the outdoors is a must. this neighborhood is so rich in life. i barely have to go away from walking simply across a street or two and i can get almost anything i need. to be outside and wave to the neighbors is a must. it makes life breathe deeply.
so i am very excited about shadowcircus coming. the " mad puppets" and burlesque performers from san francisco. apparently they sometimes get banned, not too dissimilarly to frank moore who gets denied many places, but can always be welcome at our place.
these posters and cards and images are so tantalizing. it is fun to be involved in a big event - it evokes the glorious awaiting of the grand tent to billow into the horizon, and for the smell of sawdust. il corral doesn't seem too far away. the colors are certainly reminding of the loud bright flavors of carnival.
we are building and moving things, and having another "pay-what-you-can sale" next saturday before the show june 2nd. we will have music equipment and still many clothes, usefulnesses, etc. it always helps us to stay open - so thank you!
the transhumans are curating the show that night and it will be great. tik//tik i haven't seen in awhile, so that will be rad. and the bad trips i haven't seen live. always fabulous to hear / watch dog and of course, i am so impressed with the transhumans, the multiple layer of words and life and sound - all of which are given equal importance in treatment of craft - but themselves wonderful people to work with.
so many people i have really come to depend on as great souls, like steve from dog who is working at such a fine level of organization with noisepollination, i really am enjoying these relaxing times.
i have broken out the watercolors, and am finally working with color again. having been almost exclusively working with collage - already made color - this is another reminder of why painting, especially watercolor, requires devotion.
things are going well here. it is superbusy feeling, and yet settled, but i know the newness of people and place will bring about a fresh thruway in these drafty stones.
i hope that i am not to indulgent in my personal details. i have decided that to successfully document i have to put everything in the same relative place. so to concentrate the accuracy and possibility of daily work.