LAWRIMORE DREAMS

The child and I wander up to Seattle to see the latest installation/gallery show from Lead Pencil Studio. It is housed in Lawrimore Project, which inhabits a small non-descript warehouse space. The space has been transformed into multiple rooms to display and view various art pieces and media. Today's journey northward is to view Drawing Space.

When we arrive, we are the only visitors. The only other person in the gallery space is Scott Lawrimore, owner of Lawrimore project. He is affable and charming. He is attentive to the child. He brushes Charged Column for the benefit of the child. He starts up the digital projector so that we can view Maryhill Double: Extended Approach and Maryhill Double: Aerial Analysis in the Black Box, whereupon he excuses himself and retreats to his office in order for us to commune with the art.

The child is most fascinated by two pieces: Arrival at 2AM (wood, glass, filament, string, steel) in the Main Space and Charged Column (government grey nylon, static electricity) in the Hallway. Arrival reminds the child of a harp. The charged fibers of Column move toward the child's uplifted hands.

I am most facinated by Maryhill Double: Walking Analysis, another short film of the Maryhill Double. It most intrigues me because it helps to explain some of our day visiting the Maryhill Double in September 2006. Dan Mihalyo, one of the architects/artists of Lead Pencil Studio (along with Annie Han), was circling the Double counter-clockwise. He would take a photograph, move two steps to his right, and then take another photograph, and then take two more steps. Upon completion of a full circle he would move two steps closer and begin the process again. These photographs have become the "frames" of the video of Walking Analysis. It gives the film a jittery, paranoid feel as the Double is presented.

We spend 45 minutes looking at various films, photographs, sculptures, and drawings in the collection before the child becomes restless. We chat with Scott for a few more minutes and wander back into the city.