{"id":1871,"date":"2004-03-14T09:27:23","date_gmt":"2004-03-14T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/03\/14\/1871.html"},"modified":"2004-03-14T09:27:23","modified_gmt":"2004-03-14T17:27:23","slug":"collaborative-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/03\/14\/collaborative-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jay L.<\/a> has been in the Bay Area this past week, doing his day job in the early morning through early afternoon and then BARTing to San Francisco to write a short story in Borderlands Books<\/a>. He's been collaborating with artist Alan M. Clark<\/a> and sculptor Paul Groendes. Alan painted a painting; Jay started writing a story based on the painting; Paul started a sculpture based on both; the three of them discussed where the story was going, and Alan did three more paintings over the course of the week as Jay wrote and Paul sculpted. A nifty collaboration, made even niftier (imo) by doing it all in public.<\/p>\n

I didn't make it up to the city this week to watch the works in progress, but I did attend the reception last night that marked the end of the project. Drove to Millbrae, hopped on BART (takes a little longer, but it sure beats trying to find parking in the Mission on a Saturday night), arrived at Borderlands (on Valencia, around 19th or so). Turned out the folks there weren't going out to dinner, so I wandered over to the Ethiopian place next door for a quick meal. Good food, and partway through dinner Frank Wu and his fiancee Alison showed up, so I chatted with them while I finished eating. They were waiting for a friend of Frank's who he hadn't seen in 15 years.<\/p>\n

The reception was fun; nice to see Jay and Tim and Heather as always, nice to meet the artists and some of the store staff (and the store cat, a remarkably soft sphinx cat who liked to walk on the paperbacks and knock them over). Good reception-type food. A stop-motion video of one of the paintings in progress; Alan would pause every thirty seconds as he worked on the painting to take another digital photo. Jay read a brief scene from the story, then there was Q&A about various aspects of the process. I neglected to suggest that next year they add a musician to the mix.<\/p>\n

I think I'd never been to Borderlands before, somehow. I like them—nice people, and a remarkable selection of small-press stuff and 'zines and so on. I finally picked up copies of Greetings from Lake Wu<\/a>,<\/cite> 3000 MPH in Every Direction at Once<\/a><\/cite> (which was nigh-invisible on the shelf, for some reason, possibly just 'cause I was looking for a thicker book than it turned out to be; I ended up asking one of the staff if they had it, and she found it for me), the Other Cities<\/a><\/cite> chapbook, and Bittersweet Creek and Other Stories<\/a><\/cite>—all items I'd been wanting since World Fantasy or earlier but hadn't gotten around to ordering. Now if only I had time to read all this. . . .<\/p>\n

Next weekend, Tim will be reading there, in honor of the trade paperback release of Little Gods<\/a>.<\/cite> (Boy, the Powell's image of the gorgeous cover is awful. Tim, maybe you should ask the Prime people to send them a better one.) I'm looking forward to that, too; I've been holding off on buying it 'cause I prefer trade paperbacks to hardcovers. Though after seeing the really lovely hardcover at Borderlands, I may have to get it after all. I don't think I had seen Prime's books before; I'm impressed with their production values.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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