Tonight is the big night, and all I can say is . . . I want to go to bed. You know the gig. Come see us at Stereo, at Light + Glass! Now, here’s two brand-new pieces constructed out of some older work which will be shown tonight.
Ghost King.
From the catalog:
Every artist in Jackson is in love with the King Edward. That’s just part of it. They give you an i.d. card and everything so you can get it. I remember crawling through a window onto the roof and looking right, catching the shadow of the sign, and losing my breath, broken glass tumbling from my hair. The sun ensured the ghost of the sign. The most beautiful and ruined place in the American South.
Polaroid SX-70 (no flash) (sign); Polaroid Sun600 LMS (with flash) (shadow); framed, $68.
Baby, We’ll Be Fine.
This cycle, based on the song by The National with the same title, perfectly encapsulates many relationships: body & lust, song, song, break-up letter, constant apology (how many times have you said, over scritchy-scratchy phone line, “I’m so sorry?”). See also “Love Is a Mix Tape;” “See How We Are.” I stole the legs of the songwriter Joy Garretson for the first frame and I hope she doesn’t hold it against me.
OMG I AM SO TIRED COME SAY HELLO
My eyes are burnt from laughter, little sleep and amazement. The show was, well, in a singular word, spectacular. I smiled all the way home, in between sleep and little towns, about small things through the night that are now a part of the memory banks that will always be cherished. If, for some reason of great circumstance, some of you pretty fakers missed the show, then I’m so sorry because Light and Glass rocked it hard last night.
You are beautiful. You are talented. You are simply amazing. I totally love you.