This is taken from the Washington, DC City Paper, July 26 to August 1 issue, page 48, City Lights Column:

SUNDAY
(July 28)

MoMA doesn't want your plastic Easter-egg sculpture? Well, "1460 Wall Mountables," the District of Columbia Arts Center's annual fundraising exhibition, portions out 2-foot-by-2-foot squares of hip-gallery wall space to anyone with a fiver. With art stacked floor to ceiling, crowded conditions make strange neighbors: High school art projects hang beside Rape Series #5, a slashed-canvas painting by Manon Cleary, whose work hangs in the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The crush also forces the issue of placement, sometimes (however unintentionally) to the artists' benefit: Kelly Posey's handmade Mary Tyler Moore paper dolls shimmy in an air-vent breeze, and Rebecca Lowery's acrylic-on-wood depiction of a snow-bleached Minnesota landscape is its own quiet world at the bottom of a jammed wall. The exhibition runs to Sunday, Aug. 4, and today is open from 2 to 7 p.m. at the District of Columbia Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. Free. (202) 462-7833. (Shauna Miller)

I, I am "plastic Easter-egg sculpture" !!!! Ah, how beautiful that I irritated someone at the City Paper. I don't really know how to read this little critique. But over all I have a beautiful feeling about it, because it is definately has all kinds of interesting unspoken connotations. I am finally born into the 'the fringe' or the anti-establishment of the anti-establishment. wow. Welcome.

WOW, Reinvention. Again, what was the thing I was thinking of when I was talking Debbie last nite, people just taking advantage of each other, was that it? Look at Culture Flux, Bust, blogging, Cherry Red, Taka, Fugazi, Dischord, DIY-whoa, these are things that are pushing in the 'right' direction. They all use money, but resist taking advantage? Is this a true statement?

ya know, there is something even more here, it's phenomenology, (the study of all possible appearances in human experience, during which considerations of objective reality and of purely subjective response are left out of the account-per American Heritage Dictionary) It's one of the things that piqued me early on in my interest in painting, and it is still rearing it's head, I am just not 'clear' (haha) about it when I am working. The work is just happening without me.....is that right? Think about the German guy, Beuys-you/I just can't be afraid to do what ever it is we are going to do or make. Make or do it. I CANNOT BE AFRAID OF MAKING ART. I CANNOT JUST RELY ON THE IDEA OF MATURE WORK AND A HAPPY GOLUCKY PROGRESSION, MAKE THE THINKING BE A CHALLENGE

AH, dare I forget this blog exists? Reading interviews with Tom Friedman and Tony Feher are seriously affecting me. What started out simply as a kinship of physical materials (GARBAGE) being used in the art work, is blosoming into a very complex and seemingly latent yet revolutionary ideas. Reading Friedman from the last 5 years, he's got 'timeline's' or maybe you should call them scenarios for Physical Reality being taken over by Virtual Reality and Mental Reality. Also he states at one point art is most interesting as a vehicle for IDEAS, once you think that it allows the work to take any form!!!!!!!!!!

Then talking to Ian J. about context and reference and having an art work make references, open up contexts and ideas and complexities in order to be successful and meaningful. Needing to have more than one reading to be successful. Juxtapose this with the penchant for simplicity, for glam, for slippery thinking. It's like the art nouveau of the 21st c, this slippery PRETTY art stuff!!!!!

And what about critics, criticism, what does it matter? What if the artists become the critics? (Literally instead of Figuratively what if the artists got down to the serious business of criticizing, that's how we ended up with Duchamp and Punk. Two ideas, ideas that have generated objects and images that are mainstream and commercial and sold out, yet are as critical and real and vital as they were 30 yrs ago or 80 yrs ago. There is something big coming in ART.