This Friday, December 14, there will be a show of my Polaroid work at the Light + Glass Gallery in Jackson, Mississippi, entitled “Stereo.” Along with my work will be glass and wood objects created by Wendy Eddleman and Rob Cooper. A majority of the work has never been seen before in any format—web or otherwise—and was created especially for the show. All this week I’ll be highlighting the various types of objects that will be shown (and ideally, sold) at Stereo.
Something that has been shown before and is unaltered for the show is Love Is A Mix Tape. From the show catalog:
Love Is a Mix Tape.
Rob Sheffield wrote a book named this in 2007. It’s rare that something makes me cry and also do fist-pumps in the air. It’s such a damn perfect phrase, and perfectly encapsulates that sliver of time in the 90’s when we sat hunched in front of boom-boxes, cuing up cassettes and favorites songs, trying to tell somebody how much we liked them and wanted them through “Just Like Heaven” and “One More Hour” and “Nothing Compares 2 U.” So basically I nailed a cassette dub of Rumours to the door and unspooled it.
Polaroid SX-70 (no flash); framed, $45.
The price list for most of the pieces in the show are:
Single Polaroids, framed: $45.
Polaroid diptychs, framed: $68.
Polaroid triptychs, framed: $97.
Quad Polaroids, framed: $132.
Polaroid portrait collages: $197.
We’re going to have a few other things and are trying to figure out what to price them. Oh! And there will be beer, too. Everybody likes beer. So come on by!
Love is a Mix Tape is now out in paperback. Rob will be going on a book tour in January too: Boston, Austin, NYC, Atlanta and Charlottesville.
I am excited about all the information contained in this post and its comment.
You can unspool Rumours, but “You would never break the chain”!
I was in grad school with Rob in CVille. Great book.