Last time I wrote about Jenn laughing at my idea to leave my artwork around town and only to be drawn to the experience like a moth to the flame.
Jenn co owns a bug spray business, Paper Street Soap Co. in Gardiner with her younger brother Michael. They have a small office that it outfitted with a lot of blank wall space in a enchanting Victorian building at the heart of Gardner NY. Jenn approached me about doing an Solo Show in the space and of course I agreed. I am going to be showing my portraiture; self portraits and a painting series from my book 'The Unchaste' on Friday August 25th, 6pm-9pm.
Because Jenn and I are a dynamic duo, ripping through projects and executing new ideas, we can comfortably challenge each other by pushing one and other out of her comfort zone. This being said I brought my paintings along to be abandoned around her neighborhood when I drove up to visit for lunch last week.
I piled my work into her car and told her to stop by a farm stand by her house. She was hooked the second she saw me leave the car with a small painting and place it on a bench only to return without engaging with a single person. Her eyes big as the moon 'That's it? You just leave it there and hope someone finds it?"
"Yeah," I said "Do you want to do the next one?"
So we drove up to Lake Minnewaska and then to the over look. She wanted to stay and wait for someone to find the panting, to watch their faces light up and pick it up in their hands, to see what they would do with it after they read the card taped to the front of it. As we were leaving the overlook a woman did approach the painting, cautiously she pretend to ignore that it was there, only to look around for its owner before approaching it. Her face was studding the card, still unsure about what action she should take when Jenn and I rolled out of the parking lot.
"Do you think she took it?" Jenn asked me.
The beauty is we will never know, but something in me says she did.