Hi! I'm home again! (Art Garden report)
Jun. 10th, 2003 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniI thought about posting this over the weekend, right after the Art Garden, but I didn't have my LJ program downloaded to Dad's machine, and he has this tiny little compact keyboard that is hard to write on, so I thought I'd just wait until I got back... now, I am... so...
1. Moon Shoes (a meditation).....Cecile Lindstedt
2. The Angst of De Feet.....Greg Doyle
3. Gunboats.....Doug Cole
4. Shoes for Life.....Brydon Fitzgerald
5. The Curse of the Lady Shoe...Catherine Gonick
6. Shoes: an Anthology....Jon Pielmeier
7. Shoes....giom grech
8.Shoes and Sympathy....Merry Sanders
(that is not a typo :-))
9.Girl in Combat.....Saxon Henry
10. You Can't Wear That in New York..Tracy Strong
11. Mary Janes.....Cat Guthrie
12. The Game of Shoes....Brian Higley
13. Walking Around on Our Legs..Irene O'Garden
14. I Cried...Steve Lindstedt
15. The Barefoot Queen..Ann Magill
16. These Shoes....Eileen O'Hare
17. Shoes that Fly....Mark Rettmann
Every Art Garden starts with a meditatitation -- usually, a creative visualization thing which is very general, to get the audience in a frame of mind to think about the subject in a new way... The meditation, this time, however, was very personal, which explored the relationship between the poet (Cecile) and the editor (Irene O'Garden). I liked it very much ... but I wonder whether it was written specifically to be the meditation, or was simply written as an ordinary poem which Irene decided to use as a meditation, because it had a dream-like quality... The woman who usually does the meditation was next to last (in my usual spot). I liked her piece. too...(a poem about all the places these different shoes have been, through the history of mankind, and do we each have the courage to walk in these shoes, and live up to the honor of our ancestors)... but she took off her shoes, left them on the stage, and went to sit in the front row of the audience to read it, and I think I may have been one of the few people who could hear a word she said. :-/ ...One of those bold, experimental moves, but I'm not sure the experiment worked...
My piece went over well, and a lot of people thanked me for it... some not only hugging me, but giving me pecks on the cheek as well... that last bonus may be because my dad was not sitting with me... John Pielmeier said it was the best Art Garden piece he's heard me do, and that means a lot to me, as he is a professional playwright (he wrote the play "Agnes of God"), and has been around since the very first Art Garden...
Irene did not announce my commision work (though she said later that she was itching to), because I said I wanted to talk to her first. I'm glad, really... better to get the first one under my belt, and figure out what I'm going to charge, before it goes really public...
Still no idea how much to charge...
And the 4th Hoedown coming up in about 10 days... don't know what format to do for that, either
2. The Angst of De Feet.....Greg Doyle
3. Gunboats.....Doug Cole
4. Shoes for Life.....Brydon Fitzgerald
5. The Curse of the Lady Shoe...Catherine Gonick
6. Shoes: an Anthology....Jon Pielmeier
7. Shoes....giom grech
8.Shoes and Sympathy....Merry Sanders
(that is not a typo :-))
10. You Can't Wear That in New York..Tracy Strong
11. Mary Janes.....Cat Guthrie
12. The Game of Shoes....Brian Higley
13. Walking Around on Our Legs..Irene O'Garden
14. I Cried...Steve Lindstedt
15. The Barefoot Queen..Ann Magill
16. These Shoes....Eileen O'Hare
17. Shoes that Fly....Mark Rettmann
Every Art Garden starts with a meditatitation -- usually, a creative visualization thing which is very general, to get the audience in a frame of mind to think about the subject in a new way... The meditation, this time, however, was very personal, which explored the relationship between the poet (Cecile) and the editor (Irene O'Garden). I liked it very much ... but I wonder whether it was written specifically to be the meditation, or was simply written as an ordinary poem which Irene decided to use as a meditation, because it had a dream-like quality... The woman who usually does the meditation was next to last (in my usual spot). I liked her piece. too...(a poem about all the places these different shoes have been, through the history of mankind, and do we each have the courage to walk in these shoes, and live up to the honor of our ancestors)... but she took off her shoes, left them on the stage, and went to sit in the front row of the audience to read it, and I think I may have been one of the few people who could hear a word she said. :-/ ...One of those bold, experimental moves, but I'm not sure the experiment worked...
My piece went over well, and a lot of people thanked me for it... some not only hugging me, but giving me pecks on the cheek as well... that last bonus may be because my dad was not sitting with me... John Pielmeier said it was the best Art Garden piece he's heard me do, and that means a lot to me, as he is a professional playwright (he wrote the play "Agnes of God"), and has been around since the very first Art Garden...
Irene did not announce my commision work (though she said later that she was itching to), because I said I wanted to talk to her first. I'm glad, really... better to get the first one under my belt, and figure out what I'm going to charge, before it goes really public...
Still no idea how much to charge...
And the 4th Hoedown coming up in about 10 days... don't know what format to do for that, either
