Just Like That

I am going to be exhibiting at the Dougherty Arts Center in Austin in August. A group show with three other artists. This exhibit will land on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaks.

My piece will be a site specific installation primarily comprised of the names of the dead and missing of New Orleans. My vision for the work is only beginning to materialize. But I will be engaging the evacuated community that has relocated to Austin. We will build something, including levees, and "destroy" it. Our bodies will be in the piece, part of it, building & unbuilding, the entire time.

And then the beginning of September I'm back home to New Orleans. I am conceputalizing and will build public art projects in the environment. I am going to work with the help and support of community and political organizations. I just received sponsorship for this project from University of New Orleans' anthropology department. I will live in this balloon trailer the entire time I'm there. Except when Cody and I evacuate to the Hot Springs.

Then end of December I am going to drive my ratty old car up to Michigan to run wild-eyed through the snow and build absurd fires to watch alone while eating fish I bartered spoons for from the hairy ice-fisherman who will come to the door with his falcon on his shoulder. They will both eye me suspiciously as I will be wearing an enormous coat made of mirrors and will always be drinking a root-beer float. Ice cream in winter? I am the luckiest woman in the world.

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[Kit.]

I thought I was your cat.

[eau]

think again

[D Shite]

What you are is a superstar action hero.