44 days remaining in san jose

I was driving to berkeley today 4/14/07 and it really started to rain, and Common- "Be" was on the iPod and everything seemed to be moving like in that old volkswagen commercial.

this is the view from inside Bruce Nauman's "performance corridor"

Today I went to oakland to help Shannon Wright move some stuff, and go with her and her class on a field trip to the berkely art museum to see the Bruce Nauman show again. It was nice to see it again especially after spending so much time in the school's gallery with a very different type of survey. It is amazing how timeless so many of the Nauman pieces seem, while a few do seem incredibly dated, the strongest pieces still hold their own. The sort matter of factness and unclouded ideas in the work really ring true even today. There are some very fundamental experiences in his work, and the majority of the power of the work is in the straight forward logic of the titles, which act as explanations of for the pieces are. I have a lot of imagery clouding my head right now because of work, the nauman show and the movie the science of sleep which we just finished watching. Brooke and I had sushi tonight at kazoo,and we began our preliminary moving inventory at dinner and are trying to figure out what stuff to sell, what to ship back what to drive back and what to keep, things will really be taking shape in the next couple of weeks, I will probably start dismantling my studio very soon.