arrivals and departures

I've been back from France for two weeks as of Monday. It's been an incredible return. When I was on retreat I was without internet access and had only a change of clothes, my easel, canvas paints and a sketchbook. It was great! I started a new body of work and returned with solid conviction at my core. I am returning to a very traditional medium of oil painting yet I love exploring new media work too.

Since I have been back I have mucking about in the realm of the creative economy, and how to make change in the face of failing corporate capitalism. I'm investigating how an anarchist business principle fits in with this new economy. For me it's all about community development and community participation. It's also about turning the norm on its head, bottom-up, not top down. My two weeks back have been rich with meetings about how different facets of this new economy; Providence is re-defining itself in the 21st century in the arts (Creative Providence); New Englanders are thinking about this creative economy (NEFA idea swap), the RI Arts and Business Council is up to something, and RISCA is too; there are workshops in how to be a leader in the arts (Artist Foundation); meanwhile I am honing my entrepreneurial skills at the Women and Entrapreneurship office. Today I'm off to the Alliance of Artists Communities annual conference in seattle (this years theme is arts and civic engagement).

In between I was lucky to be able to reconnect with my friends, share photos of my travels and new artwork, eat drink and be merry.

How To Make Waves (v.4)

1. Have you seen the other side? Do so then return here.

2. Carry this wave in your pocket and take it out to show your friends. Or stop a stranger in the street and show it to him/her/them. He/she/they may want to participate in the project, or decline.

3. Explain that this is a project about making waves.

4. He/she/they may have questions; you may want to answer them, or not.

5. Photograph him/her/it/them with the wave. Use a cell phone, film camera, digital camera, video or your own photographic memory.

6. Enjoy these shared moments, you and a friend/stranger on the street, holding a displaced wave captured in your hands, holding it carefully, preciously, playfully and sometimes upside-down.

7. Collect these images and moments of wavemaking.

8. Take the wave with you. Keep it secret in your pocket/ purse/wallet, this small piece of paper that is also a wave. Share it and make a sea of connections using this folded little image of time and space.

As the wave decays make another copy, add your own text. Make as many waves as you want and distribute them freely.

This wave is a photocopied overlay of a silkscreen of a scan of a folded photocopy of a video image of a wave that I found at Orient Point in Revere by Logan Airport on the Boston Harbor in the early summer of 1999.

Th Fourth Wave
(Instructional)
(cc)2008
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Making Waves-the first time

This is the first time that I've entertained having a blog. I always thought it would be too intimate a window, too impersonal a way to presentr myself. But as I know blogging is only as interesting as the people participating. So I am one participant. Perhaps there will be other participants in wave-making here.

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