elbow grease is free
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Monday, July 2, 2012
Really Really Free Market in Redwood City, CA
Free Utopian Project participated in the
Really Really Free Market in Redwood City, Ca
which occurs on the first Sunday of every month, on the corner of Main and Beech Streets.
The Really Really Free Markets are loosely organized across the country:
Inventory List:
small antique wooden chair
2'x3' painting by me
2 small paintings by Mike K.
Used art supplies, crayons, pencils, oil paints from Mike
4 2inch pots of succulents
8 inch ceramic pot with an azalea
a succulent in a palm pot
drascaena that Mike had used as an art project
3 Ziplock baggies of beads
Ziplock baggy of beer bottle caps
industrial size potato masher from Sofia's project
Ziplock baggy of fused bead necklaces
Ziplock baggy of sequoia cones
6 garden bean stakes
an old wood sash window
a small yucca in a ceramic pot
4 3inch ceramic spheres
2 soft cover books
a very sad, desperate for attention palm tree
a player piano scroll
a small wall mirror with hooks
2 small picture frames
a desk organizer
a large square plastic plant pot
a wire stand on wheels with 3 baskets, super cute and perfectly rusted
scented geranium cuttings
small agave in ceramic pot
small ground cover plant
a hanging metal candle holder with glass lamp shade (not sure why, but one person took the metal part and left the glass lamp shade...someone else took that a few minutes later)
What surprised me most about the event is the stuff that people took, (beer bottle caps) the stuff that was left, (the antique chair and window) the speed in which things disappeared - immediately, as soon as something was put down it was swept away and we had no opportunity to get a photo of the complete installation.
The only disappointing moment was one old guy, presumably an organizer, who critiqued the art that we brought:
"Is that your masterpiece?" indicating a painting
"yes",
"well I've seen worse"
really? Really?
Luckily the other people hosting the event were really really nice, helpful and engaged in the purpose of free. They informed us that the person who lives in the park was quite concerned when they showed up and he called the police who told him not to worry, they were good people.
really really wanting free stuff
really really happy shoppers
Items purchased:
Kent - 2 of my plants
me - a carved urn from Thailand for my next free installation although at the moment it's sitting in my garden
Friday, June 29, 2012
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
is just a visitor to this planet,
a guest who will only stay for a limited time.
What greater folly could there be
than to spend this short time alone,
unhappy or in conflict with our companions?
Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life,
enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.
is just a visitor to this planet,
a guest who will only stay for a limited time.
What greater folly could there be
than to spend this short time alone,
unhappy or in conflict with our companions?
Far better, surely, to use our short time here in living a meaningful life,
enriched by our sense of connection with others and being of service to them.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Posts to the Facebook Page
are free
" Breathe, become, be, exhale, let go, you're free. Utopia is alive in me. You make your own utopia, and by sharing it can foster other Utopianists. We create utopia by being utopia, we become utopia by thinking utopia, we feel utopia by constantly meditating on and immersing ourselves in utopian visions. As each of us visualizes, so we direct and become utopianists. Utopianists arise, generate utopia now!!!!!! Don't let life beat you down, plan utopia, dream utopia, measure, color, sketch, CAD, video, carve, paint, spread, swim in/ through, drink, breathe, digest, excrete Utopia!!!! I love utopia, I am utopia, I share utopia. All we are saying is give UTOPIA a chance!!!! "
Saturday, May 19, 2012
reviews are free
KQED review by Kristen Farr:
Jocelyn Maggait's Free: A Utopian Project was the aforementioned pile of junk, which is what it looked like at first glance. This makeshift store of objects was culled from the free section on Craigslist, then curated and stacked together in poignant, aesthetically pleasing piles of handled objects, many of which had a creative bent. The artist invited her audience to take something home and consider the history of the object. I scored a plastic hot dog bun for my fake food collection and wondered how many children or animals had slobbered on it since 1987, which was the production date stamped on the bottom.
SFChronicle review by Leah Garchik
on all through May, features work by 12 artists.
Jocelyn Meggait's "Utopian Free Economy Project" is described in the
online catalog as "a socially interactive installation in which all
objects are offered for free with one small caveat - consider the object's
past, present and future economic and ecological presence." The artist
gathered a pile of stuff - including a piano, Polaroid cameras, labels, plaster
molds and costumes - offered free on Craigslist, and is offering it free to
gallery goers.
The photo installation
of Susanna
Corcoran, who tipped me off
about this, is described as "intervening in the commonplace" to
create "temporary situations." She poured colored milk into a
reservoir, a bay and small containers, creating what she describes as
"lunar landscapes or brain scans."
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Monday, April 30, 2012
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