Next morning in Marfa I mail a sixth postcard to Jens Hoffmann. A funny ratio you might say to the two postcards he kept, especially considering that I also sent him the Texas Lady VHS tape and a photograph of Will Rogers & Soapsuds in Lubbock, but his postcards were vintage, half a century old. [...]
I can sense the Hermes assist as I cross into New Mexico. Out here they call him Coyote. He’s a kind of fellow traveler for me and has provided joy, insight and a lingering sense of loss as I drive these days. It’s Friday afternoon after the nearly tearful tumbleweed release — evidently I loaded [...]
Thursday morning Jeff and I head into Lubbock in separate cars. He’ll go east to Dallas for a Texas Artists Today book signing and I’ll go north, but first we roll over to the Buddy Holly Center. I’ve got the autographed John Wayne photo, which I’ve amended a bit. The image appears to be from [...]
Fell asleep last night thinking how I had the Lone Ranger flashlight with me and didn’t think to use it. As if it were a different sort of object, than say, the case for my shades, in the truck with it. It’s value as “art” has somehow rendered it out of mind as a light. [...]
The lucky key continued to influence my time yesterday as I wound down from writing. I turned on the TV about one am and found John Ford’s silent film, The Iron Horse playing. This movie is about the building of the transcontinental railroad — surely one of the most emblematic expressions of Manifest Destiny. I [...]
This is day one of One Kind Favor, a trip I’m taking around the state and into New Mexico, reversing the route taken by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco and curator of On The Road , an exhibition that took place last summer in the Hudson (Show)Room at Artpace [...]
…what living in the country means: It’s sitting in a little bitty restaurant, looking out the window at a cow, but you only have powdered creamer for your coffee. — Dave Hickey Just last night… As is often the case when you get around people who have gone to art school or read art magazines [...]
