Calling All Cars

The next painting project is starting up. The Blessed Isles: A remix of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Info about participation can be viewed at theblessedisles.blogspost.com. All help is welcome. Whether you are an American or not, there is space on our boat for you. I'm planning on a monumental project, size and number of boats will be determined by number of participants. Photoshoots are being arranged at Wesleyan, Southern, and Paier College. Others are photographing themselves.

The title comes from a Nietzsche line: "till we find the blessed isles where are friends are dwelling."

I've always associated this with the bohemian life, where it leads you, and who you encounter along the way. I'm hoping to show the discrepancy between the personal narratives we engage in as humans and those we get grouped into by way of the national identity and its narratives. There will be a strong political edge to the piece: crossing water to foreign lands for resources, from George Washington to GW: how has the face of America changed and can we any longer believe in the epic and heroic in a political sphere? so much is done in the name of spreading freedom. Simultaneously, how does spending a life in ideas and the arts separate one from a national identity. Is one always floating between lands, creating a community that is beyond land? Join me and be immortalized in paint.