TL:DR- Vending is a rites-of-passage for most professional artists in Philly.  What energies and exchanges result from the experience?   


Let's start with a number- 4.  That's how many years I've been a pro (an adj. that implies a level of mastery and presumption).   Art vending has to be both my least and favorite thing to do. I experience the open air and strong sunlight, and I see with my own eyes how a real-world art display stacks up to how I show it online.  

When I vend on First Friday (8/1/2014), I hope absorb something new from the energy around me and the people I meet.

First, I want to direct your attention to 3 pieces of wondrous art that I've done recently, on the left-hand side. I call these the "Weaver" series- the weaving of black and white from a 2-D plane, to create new types of people.  

In general, I don't connect physical space with what is imaginary.  So, when I imagine, "living room", I think of a 2-D image.  Static, final in it's purpose and general utility.  But, when a physical space mostly takes place on a medium that we can't truly see or touch, how does our perception of it change then, whenever we think about it?  For example, if Facebook was a real physical place, it would be an enormous skyscraper of thousands of levels.  Or talking on a mobile phone- there is science to explain telecommunications and how it all works, but the sheer wonder of it working in the first place like that!  Wow!