artColony notes1

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.

 

This entry was posted in Archives. Bookmark the permalink.