Back to it.

Hello non-existent reader! Hello future generation! It's been quite a while since I last blogged to you. Let me tell you, August and September have been super busy for me, and seemed to vanish into wisps of smoke before my eyes. These months brought a move into the 3rd floor of my house, where Noah and I share 3 huge rooms and enough studio space for each of us to retire into our respective corners with the option of ignoring the other's presence if so inclined. Also, I started a new job (as Program Associate for Community Music Center of Boston, a part of the Boston Center of the Arts) where I do just about everything from writing lines and lines and lines of code, to helping launch outreach projects, to... um "Harlo, if you have a moment can you make 20 copies of this, double-sided?", to planning festivals, to taking pictures and filming video. It has its ups and downs, but mostly it has its ups. Finally, I've been doing so much freelance work that I couldn't see straight, but the extra cash was well worth it considering the move and the purchase of a new computer. With the wrap of my involvement with Susan Eisenberg's installation "On Equal Terms" at Brandeis (I did sound design), I took about one minute to catch my breath, and now back to it.

My next project should be going up in December at the Kingston Gallery in Boston (although that deal hasn't been sealed yet...) and is called "No Forwarding Address". It's an installation consisting of video and pictures exploring the nostalgia of home when one finds one's self displaced. The piece uses aerial maps of a childhood home (whose home is of no consequence) presented as document, as proof of the existence of that home, but manipulated in such a way that the viewer has to question the role of the nostalgic imagination in how these images are rendered. Here's one of the images I'm using:


Although the images are changing daily...

I'll probably (okay, I'll have to) write up a more cogent statement of this piece in coming days, and will probably post some news as developments... develop. But now, I'm occupied by trying to turn a bunch of old Dell Latitudes (left by my awesome ex-roommate Kevin) into video monitors worthy of installation. So far, I've upgraded the video drivers and installed Windows XP on one of them, and later on, I'm gonna crack the sucker open, and turn it inside out so the LCD screen faces outward while the computer's guts and keyboard and stuff are mounted to the back of the screen, making a very thick picture frame. Something like this project I saw on You Tube.

Okay, well, thank you, blog, for putting up with my neglect. Bis bald...