If I need it, I’ll make it. If I can’t afford it, I’ll find it, salvage it, discover another way. I need to be able to carry it on my back, or in a trailer, or…this van I’ve got! It’s got to move, happen, be a process, dismantle/reassemble, flex on the way.
I’m here. There’s this guy from Switzerland making vital paintings and carrying an electric drill loaded with permanent markers he uses to make tattoos…join me! Impermanent permanence, now you see me…
I’m here. I built a printing press of a bottle jack and whatever else I needed. Set it up, lithograph, line drawing, language – watch it go! Make! Join!
I fashion old-style overhead projectors from cast-off computers and television sets, I create lenses for them, I project – you project! Join me!
This is a “free country for free people” (so they say) with an infinite number of fees to be paid. I can make a room out of this…come inside…watch yourself…see what self the culture shouts at you…think. Join.
See that wall there? What does it say? What’s going on inside? What if it said this? Or this? (projector ON). What if the world, the whole world, were in 3-D and you were part of every picture, event and occurrence you see? (Here – try these glasses!) (projector ON). Because you are…
Ever notice those lights? I mean really notice? Patterns, shape, hue, mood? Here, let’s look at them closer, box them (build the boxes of course), and light them again…see them now? Join me!
What can I make of this? Why I could make a spaceship, an art gallery, a new universe, a workshop, a time-travel machine, a theater, an underground retreat. A home. A school. A festivity.
Life is what we make of it…and I am unable to cease…the possibilities really might be…endless…
Find me. I’m here.
I’m here. Join me.
I’m here now. Join me.
Find me. I’m here.
(projector OFF…
masterpiece…
process…
an ephemeral graffiti.)
Find me. Join me.
For more information about Joey’s work, and the Rose Gallery, please go to his myspace page, at http://www.myspace.com/therosegallery.
Nathan Filbert 03/11/10
