13 September 2009

Launching our Park(ing) Day project at Grand Seed Ball at Blank Studios & Gallery



Arrived last minute... and set my presentation up at Blank Gallery, where 'Grand Seed Ball' took place tonight.

The pic is taken with a phone-camera and no light... but in the middle there's a world map drawn on the wall, around it the hair pics I have so far, with location, printed onto sticky paper and connected with drawn lines. There are rows of smaller stickers with drawn green grass - or hair - around it as well. Above the map is a print of the call-out for hair pics, as posted in the Help us with 'Growing beds for public hair'! post

I really enjoyed the evening! Intimate, relaxed atmosphere and interesting work. Many people liked the Grow Bed idea, which felt great.

CiCi Blumstein had installed a great pile of green felt (back left in the first photo), and was inviting people to cut each other's silhouettes out. I liked it, funny feeling to lie on the soft felt on the floor and get cut around the edges of your own body... The results were beautiful and strange too.
The map I designed for park(ing) day was on the wall, I had printed it on two A0 sheets of paper and stuck them together. Looked good!

My friend and collaborator Lori O came later, we will now work together on how to present the hair images on the Day itself.
Blank gallery will be open as a 'lab' open to the Park(ing) day artists during this coming week. We will be there on Wed to see what we come up with with our (then) plentiful, human and digital material....!


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