WHAT IT IS NOW: A collaborative work in progress

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

2013: Session Eleven

This week we explored work that would protrude out from the wall surface...

A special guest artist joined us this week.

This is our new staging area. It is here we will place the work on the panels that will eventually hang in the gallery.

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Joel Schapira said the following when asked to describe the project, “As the date for the show was getting close and then closer, we made an interesting discovery-- we discovered that we would be untrue to ourselves, to you and to art, if we got tense and worried and hurried, if we gave up being imaginative and exploratory (creative) and, instead, focused on making everything shipshape and presentable. We could continue to behave artistically only by just keeping on keeping on. So we did, and now here we are. Our show is called, "WHAT IT IS NOW." and we're all in it together. And who knows what it will become tomorrow, for we have no intention of stopping now...”