As part of my performance, I read an piece drawn from the content of "Numbers and Lines," my visual essay published in the third issue of art critical magazine, "The Forgetory." A small travel journal I kept is the centerpiece for this essay. Passages from Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer," (the book I brought with me on the trip) are co-mingled with French vocabulary, recollections of painting, steamships and three generations of relatives centered around the small town of Orient Point, NY. At the close of my performance, I observe, "The Mississippi River from above looks exactly as Mark Twain described it, wide flat, meandering and muddy. If you like patterns, you could say that the behaviors of various family members are patterned on things their parents and siblings did. We are all part of a wide, flat, meandering, muddy predestined River."
The performance took place on August 26th at Dillon Gallery, in Chelsea, NY.