Streams - Memory POP- UPS

 Yea So,  this year started on a wonderful note,  spent New Year's with good friends. We all felt at ease except for the dog who had her schedule disrupted.

 Preparing work, working on my various devices,  

I can remember walking into an electronics store when I was about 10   That was before the slot car track & store and the trampoline center were built.. I would walk up and down the aisles wondering about the dials, the capacitors, wires, and clips and imagine how they would fit together or what could be created with all of the various pieces.  

The Electronic Store was a few doors down from where the HOB NOB Grocery Store was located - Which by the way was where I was caught shoplifting a bag of Frito's with a friend of mine.- the police were called and I was given a ride home by an officer, who marched me up to our door. We were living in a salmon-colored -maybe it was beige- Duplex at the time. I was whipped by my father, not for stealing but for being late? I never could figure that out.

Winter 2024 , Kenosha WI

 

It's 2025 a New Year. Moving Time & Space

Discards- back into the stream.

Listening to David Byrne - Collage.

It's  2025 a New Year. Same time

Perhaps I will take all of the little pieces,

the bits left over from repairs,

extra screws left over from reassembly

pieces of tape pulled from scabbed over the skin. 

A belt buckle from a long ago deteriorated leather strap.

Assorted paper clips, rusty exacto blades, and rubberbands weakened from too much UV.

Then to take these various piles of fragments & pieces pile them up in the middle of the floor and photograph them before discarding them

The residue of experiences long forgotten

Memory Triggers.

A New Dawn

After editing, and putting pieces together- 

I push post, sending fragments of my life out there, 

hoping to find an audience who shares 

my sensibilities, experience, and feelings. 

 The latest piece. 

 I feel like i am getting closer to something. 

It was time to shut myself down, i decided better of it.

Last Saturday I had the film "Witness" included in the 2024 Evanston Experimental Video Showcase! It is the first time i have seen my work projected onto the side of a building. Complete with sound.

All Fall Down

The Source.

Moments Missed

 

Watcher
CMYK monoprint with hand-coloring
10.5" X 14" c.2024

While sitting in the silence of the morning, I heard a mourning dove sing its song, finches and others filling the moments with theirs.

I thought how fortunate I was to hear this fullness of sound, mixed with the slight shadows cast from the flowering cherry and apple trees. 

Sometimes though all I hear is the cacophony of bells, whistles, exhaust notes, and the popping of gunshots in the distance.