Breakthrough of sorts, although not literary - for me - I attached wide red ribbons long and short sized to the branches of two white birches in the front yard which float and jerk in the moving air in the spirit of Alexander Calder's joy and Christo's clothing environments. In a small Maine paper mill town nothing like it has ever been seen as a work of art.
RED is meant to be in the spirit of Alexander Calder's mobiles, a joyful experience, positive, which I find to be true when I watch it at odd times during the day or week. In a society where so much art is on the dark side, which should exist, a work of art with beauty and joy is very unusual. The simplicity of RED, as with Calder's mobiles, is another direction that is unusual as well today.
The down side, unfortunately, I learned as I promoted RED that there is resistance to such art works created by individuals unless they are supported by groups, organizations, in other words have the "imprimatur of the organization," which restriction to creativity I thought we had left behind when I was a boy in the Fifties as we denigrated the "Organization Man" - but there is still resistance to the free individual, even in the arts, in America, still support by groupies for THE ORGANIZATION. This was a very disappointing point for me. But this negative exists in NYC art world as well which the NY Times has pointed out on various occasions.
Ah, RED moving in the breeze, flying in the wind, free -
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