Arabesque

Here is a construction shot of Archival Editions' tent for the show "Arabesque," a site-specific installation which occurred on Oct. 9-11. I participated in the event along with a dozen other artists, mostly from New Orleans and Baltimore. The installation was in the manner of an Arab tent for living/selling. Central to the tent's decoration was a 16'x20' 200-year-old Oriental rug purportedly owned by Bob Dylan at one point in time, and borrowed from a New Orleans rug dealer. My piece was the artifact collection I gathered during my summer stay in Marfa. Archival Editions curated the show and selected the artists, and I feel very lucky to have been a part. For me it was much-needed, being in a nucleus of artists, builders, and thinkers, though we may not have all had the same relationship to the land or the act. Being back in Marfa was interesting and gave me a new perspective on being there as an outsider. The field our arabesque tent occupied was once a ball field in the fifties for old Marfa homesteaders, now old men getting Archival Editions' locally purchased lumber from the torn-down tent to heat their wood stoves.

I do love any opportunity to maneuver over that landscape a thousand miles, especially in a pickup truck.
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