. Ever since I moved here in 2004 and the crack addicts would prophecy to me and follow me around while I shopped in Globe Drug, I grew the walking fantasy that We Are All All-ready Here. I felt and sensed that this is it!, all the ancient kings and queens and crowned misfits returning [...]
The Hub project was the fruit of a a community-wide charette held November 15, 2008. This neighborhood-wide gathering, facilitated via the Open Space Technology technique was prompted by Sister Jean Durel’s “Heart and Soul”-inspired neighborhood empowerment organizing and funded by The Incarnate Word Foundation . In short, the charette produced three ideas voted on over [...]
On October 10, 2008, I gathered together with friends and strangers at the STL Arch to create “The World’s Biggest Belly Laugh under the Arch”. Art-supporter/reporter Diane Keaggy from the Post-Dispatch had this to say: Don’t ask how, but 29-year-old Lyndsey Scott found herself in a northern California nursing home taking a yoga class. And [...]
****************************** Day of the Dead 2007 : My inspiration to take part in Cherokee’s Dia de los Muertos celebrations came from a collaboration with Patrick Ritchey in 2005. Among other street installations, we made a giant flower boa for the Indian sculpture sculpted from paper flowers listed with the names of the dead from the [...]