Mindfulness & Making

Last night at Hilary’s annual Festivus party I had two interesting conversations.

Hilary and I talked off and on about consciousness in reaction to another conversation she had. She had recently read the answers to an annual question posed to a community of scientists and mathematicians: “What do you believe in, but can not prove?”

Also, Tesia, George and I talked about the idea of souvenir in relationship to contemporary art. Like when a video artist sells still images from her work. How this is a simplified and thus consumable version her practice. This idea has interested me in my work. But until last night I hadn’t thought about the relationship that may exist between the “dumbing down” of work and its saleability. But upon writing the word “souvenir” here in this blog, I realized am very interested in a sovereign and consumable version of my art!

And, I think Brian Gillis an I are starting to really talk about curating and exhibiting in a religious art and topics in contemporary practice show, hopefully for Chicago, but maybe we could even get it to travel? He just sent me a really interesting statement, via email.