Nov. 15th 2020

"Unique"

"It's the transition toward a post-residency world. "

It has been a great five month run at the Hyde Park Art Center. My closure date looks like Nov. 30th 2020. Rhythmism Lives! The production count looks impressive.  During this time four 40" X 50" textile panels were dynamically designed and technically executed using archival materials.  Over forty items of wearable-art were produced, gifted or sold.  

All documented and shared on video and photos using a variety of platforms.

The major curator-at-large, Dan Nadel, came from Brooklyn to witness, feel, experience all things Rhythmistic in this unique studio setting. (He had previously decided to include some of my early published Rhythmistic works and documents from the 1970s & '80s in a book and group exhibition planed for the Spring of 2021 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. This was an ever-cool coincidental follow up visit. )

 I made the sharp pivot from the complex long running experimentation of this creative initiative of mine to affirmed in the future-primitif notion of Rhythmistic Visual Art.  Due to Covid- accommodations various aspects and features of the Residency understandably did not manifest.  

But my mind was on my art and my art was on my mind.

During this time of exclusion based on casteism, ageism, racism, classism, lack of vision, repressive arts orthodoxy, creative bias, political lies, protests, riots, omni-phobiaism, random violence and just plain fucked-upedness....... I met my artistic objectives and Rhythmistic goals with producing a surprising  healing art-therapuetic side-effect to boot! 

 Those who manifest the ism-schisms listed above are welcome to read my Wiki!

Those who plan to copy my works and steal ideas to enhance their hyper derivative selves without due credit, the Demi-Gods of All Things Innovative will visit you with The Seven Freaky Bad Creative Karmas.  Heed No, Seek No, Speak No, Do No, Express No, Publish No, &  Make No Rhythmistic Evil!

 I sent out hundreds of notices and invitations globally to major and minor players and institutions in the visual & creative or expressive arts.  To those who plan to follow up with appropriate professional offers to collect or exhibit my works in the coming post-Covid renaissance, I am ready.  My Rhythmistic Art  collections and thematic  bodies of work plus decades of published documentation are the stuff of genius. Fodder for smart investment. Tools of open art appreciation.

They are the important fruits of intelligent labor and artistic practices that were underscored by a rigorous education and career path that welcomed meaningful oversight. 

Rhythmism is so on time.  It is not trendy.  It is not fashion. Rhythmism Lives!"