Work in progress - Collaboration with Jose Navarette

Chapter 1: Voyage to Lilliput

Collaboration

Thank you, Jose Navarrete, for agreeing to work with me on a project. I'm honored to be working with you.

Here's more on Jose's work:

www.zaccho.org/jose.html

huitlacoche.blip.tv

counterpulse.org/programs/artist-in-residence-program/jose-navarrete-violeta-luna/

We've met twice, and will be meeting regularly to develop our project. At our first meeting, Jose improvised while wearing a muslin jumpsuit from which needles hung from red thread. Watching him stick the needles into the wall while crouching in a corner, tethered there by the draped threads on either side of his chest, led us to exploring imagery from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. We discovered later with delight that a small muslin doll figure I brought to the meeting is the height of a Lilliputian. In our second meeting, we talked about how Swift's 17th century satire resonates with our contemporary context of global warming and attitudes that contribute to the growing gap between rich and poor. In between meetings, we'll be reading from Swift's classic texts, drawing imagery and connections to the follies and foibles that one could say accompany many of our current headline issues, economic and environmental. As I draw, and Jose moves, and we talk, we progress in our work together.

We've been working with drawings and video to document and provide fodder for subsequent meetings.