Tell You What
Beth Lisick here, hanging out at Creativity Explored, an art studio for developmentally disabled adults in San Francisco. This project is sponsored by a grant from the Creative Work Fund and will eventually culminate in a book of advice from the artists about life and art and love and food and fashion and money and death.
Thomas Pringle was working on this this morning. It comes from a memory when he was a kid in Sonoma. One person would shake the apple trees in the orchard and another would poke at the branches to get the apples to fall down.
Makeya Kaiser is the one who’s got the pink drumkit currently up in the window of CE. I hung out with her today at CE 2 and she’s working on this sculpture/wallpiece thing where she’s sewing wire into burlap pouches with thousands and thousands of black stitches.
I was talking to Gerald Wiggins this morning and he said what inspired his robot drawing was another piece of art hanging in the CE studio. He pointed up at the painting (pictured below) and said, “I saw the eyes and knew I wanted to make something with those, but I wanted to make mine a robot.” I’ve talked to the artists about so many of their inspirations, but this was the first time someone told me they were inspired by another CE artist. Pretty cool.