Do you still feel the same?

2015, Various Paints and India Ink on Muslin Laminated to Aluminum Screen, 8.75"w x 10.75h x 1"d

This work was created for an exhibition called The Pearly Gates Collection, the brain child of artist and curator Michael McCall. The exhibition was a tribute to the renowned curator Walter Hopps, who died in 2005, with whom McCall and many of the artists were friends - all of whose art lives were indelibly impacted by Hopps. McCall built the Pearly Gates Collection by trading worthless European bank notes with 50 chosen artists, asking each artist to exchange an artwork they thought would be worthy of exhibiting in the “Halls of Heaven”. The pre-Euro notes had been accumulated by Hopps as traveling cash during his tenure as a curator or director at various museums, but never spent. They were later given to McCall by Hopps’ widow Caroline Huber. McCall asked me to participate and I made - and traded - this work in memory of an evening spent with Walter during which we had a memorable conversation. The exhibition opened in early November 2018 at the Yucca Valley Visual and Performing Arts Center in the High Desert of Southern California, where McCall is Executive Curator.