David Allen in Drive Time
Remember the Drive Time art exhibit at Chaffey College that I blogged about a few days ago? Well, David Allen (that David Allen, the one that gave me fame a millennium ago) has visited the Drive Time art exhibit, and wrote about it in his column.
..."Drive Time" (on view through Sept. 24) employs painting, sculpture, video, photography and drawing to explore our love/hate relationship with driving. OK, mostly hate....
Allen describes some of the exhibits:
"The O.J. Simpson Driving Drawing Project" (Michael Markowsky): Doodles made while following the route of Simpson's low-speed chase. In his artist statement, Markowsky says driving the canyonlike sunken freeways gave him "an overwhelming sense of doom and foreboding." If only Simpson were so filled with angst....
"405 North, 405 South" (Annette Kapon): A tribute to the gridlocked freeway at dusk, set to ethereal music, this video uses strings of red and silver Christmas beads to recreate the look of tail lights and headlights in stop-and-go traffic.
Says Kapon's statement: "The video alludes to my sense of despair while driving from one university to the next to teach, and the sense of both dislocation and connection I feel when my body traverses long distances very, very slowly."
Imagine how the beads feel....
P.S. Yes, Allen David is a tribute of sorts.
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