artColony notes1
Friday afternoon traffic jam, small cars in Skopje vying for space on the roads with huge trucks. Men standing in the shade, smoking, talking, hanging out in groups.
We pass a building with a plate glass display window on the 2nd story. It is a lighting store, of which this particular street seems to have several. But this window is different—the light fixtures are hung in such a way that they could be a minimalist sculpture installation. And in the very front, in the left hand corner of the window, a Marcel Breuer-inspired BABY
STROLLER.
Column1
This
Morning
I
Woke
To
The tap-
Tap
Sound
Of
Tome
Bundovski,
Ul
Mimali
EVT[Cyrillic]IMI
BR-15
Skopje
Skulptop
Makedonia,
“arbeiting”
on
his
sculpture
somewhere
in front
of
the
hotel
he
speaks
an
idiosyncratic
salad
(mixed)
Column 2
Of
German +
Macedonia +
English +
Italian +
I’m
Not
Always
Sure
Which
So
Far
I’ve
Only
Had
One
Conversation
With
Him
In
Which
Düsseldorf
Didn’t
Occur
He
Extends
Himself
In
This
International
Colony,
In
This
Region
Of
Cultural,
Religious,
Column3
And
Linguistic
Crossroads
By offering
The
Language
Of
A
Kind
Of
Personal
Tower
Of
Babel
Later
In
The
Morning,
About 7:30,
He
Poured
Me
A
Glass
Of
Coca-
Cola
(America!)
the
last
time
I
Drank
Coca-
Cola
Was
The
Summer
I
Was
13
or
14
and
gulped
cans
and
cans
of
it,
and
baked
blueberry
pies
I
Didn’t
Want
To
Refuse
His
Gift
I
Pretended
To
Drink.
Note: the texts comprising columns 1, 2, & 3 were transcribed from a diptych painting I did at the art colony, artColony notes1 and artColony notes2. The two-part painting was taken into the colony’s private collection, and unfortunately, I have no usable images of it.