My good friend and past collaborator, Dance Professor, Patricia Rincon, once said to me. "It is never your job to explain your art to anyone." It made a great impression on me.. I had always hoped people would get me and my performance art ideas (which they rarely did ) but now I felt supported in the idea that I did not owe my audiences a logical explanation of what my art installations are about. They can be about whatever you think they are about.
My art process in never linear so why should I expect my audiences or participants to be see them in any particular way ??
Art seem to me, to be quantum, a pure trusting process that there is something to be transmitted no matter who "gets it."
So, many months ago, I ordered these 12 completely blank white women masks from the US. I had no idea why from my linear mind. I had just been thinking about white paper masks for over a year so when I had the opportunity to get just the ones I wanted I went ahead and got them. They sat on my desk. I mentioned to lots of people I had them. Dead silence. 8 months later it all began to unfold. International Day of Dance was quickly approaching and a friend was doing an art opening for nude photography. POP. The idea of nudity struck me as the blank white masks. NEUTRALITY. Neutrality is the acceptance of EVERYTHING in the present moment as PURPOSEFUL to a higher plan. A quantum leap in belief, that EVERYTHING that comes to you is FOR you and not AGAINST you. It all links to non-judgement. The world is constantly trying to heal our relationship to judgement. .....
WHY ?? because that is the one thing that keeps us separated from each other and the acceptance of the rightness of all of our experiences in life. We live in a world of magic constantly appearing as others and situations we judge from a cultural mind set we were taught and therefore can not find the gift.
BAD ONE title is from a song by Mathew Dear with a line that says "if I was one of the good ones I don't think you'd like me" .
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