It would have been good to read part of that note in the podcast…so very glad it is posted here!

Also-the artist did not rez the work themselves which adds to the peculiarity of the discourse and level of disconnect.

What do artists think about rezzing other people’s work at BIW for discussion? If I gave a gift of art out and someone decided to rez it for critique I am not sure that is the most diplomatic idea in the world.

Thoughts?

(now sees everyone rummaging for that terrible interactive smoking side table I made in 2007 to rez noooooooo!)

The title itself has its origins in a film and music artist friend from Atlanta. He had sent me a collection of music experiments of his just as I was in the midst of trying to understand why I was feeling a need to bring in abstract and maybe creepy shapes into my work. One of the tracks sampled some audio from the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The audio lead me to watch the film again and read Capote’s Novella. In the story, the main character Holly invents a world around her in reaction to her anxieties and fears which she describes as the “mean reds.” Holly says, “But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll just end up looking at the sky ”
-AM Radio

The red prims in the installation where coming out of the house. Holly Golightly is smiling:)

For me, the AM Radio piece represents the unleashing of a creative energy, the shed is symbolic of some kind of mental confinement or restraint, the explosion of red perhaps being the artists imagination bursting free from its borders.

Of course this could all be complete bollocks.