PROJECT 851

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COMMUNITY... in these difficult times or extreme racism

There are no words that can be spoken to justify the horrific racial atrocities happening presently in America specifically at this moment in history. It is a time where I am lost for words to even know where to begin explaining how WRONG things are.

All I could do to cope with it all was to go for a bike ride and look at something else until things could be processed. This is where we went and what we saw.

A strange juxtaposition of industry and elegance? A drop, maybe 10 feet?, lights turn on and then it spins. Did Rodney Graham, the artist, ever fathom that in a time of madness this piece would be an odd symbol of the contrasting strangeness of life at this moment in time? The scale and position so odd yet fits in a space that equally is completely out of context and imbalanced. It leaves you staring yet at the same time wondering how it works in the space it inhabits: it does and it doesn’t.

I am left looking over my shoulder trying to make sense of it all.

Sending heartfelt love and kindness to all humanity during these in human times.