JACKSON
Jackson was an unexpected pleasure – really young, vibrant, apparently growing community. Played a swarm set in a little nook in the Lewis Art Gallery at Millsaps, which turned out to be a great space for it: the intimacy made intensified the focus (for myself and the audience, I think), brought out the soft sounds and made the louder sections, as one listener said, “frightening.” There was a larger space – the main gallery space – but the U-shaped room, the lack of a ceiling, and the buzz of the fluorescents above would have made it far less functional. Got a pretty good 4’33” video, too, although I’m still having problems with perspective – plus I noticed with a little aggravation that the resolution on my digital camera is far, far better than that on my camcorder.
4'33" (jackson) from Jacob Wick on Vimeo.
Or maybe I just don’t know how to use my camcorder, which is a certain possibility. I came on a good weekend, too – Thursday night was a big art community-wide art opening in the Fondren neighborhood that drew a very impressive crowd; saw a great show behind a coffee shop in the selfsame neighborhood, featuring, among other things, this dude:
AND saw a potentially beautiful alternate arts space called One to One, in a different neighborhood. One to One is housed in a giant warehouse, with a few different gallery spaces; a giant, comfortable party/performance space; and artist studios. As with most alternate spaces, however, One to One is having some serious problems with funding…
NATCHEZ TRACE
At the behest of my friend Ross Taylor in Columbia, took a slow route out of Mississippi, along the Natchez Trace, a historic road leading from Tennessee to Natchez, MS. It was nice. I made a vague attempt to take some pictures, heard rifle shots from nearby hunters, got rained on, and stumbled on the Emerald Mound, which apparently is the second largest Indian burial mound in the states. Like all other mounds I’ve seen – the Serpentine mounds in Ohio, the Oyster mound (Pearl mound? forget) in Florida – the Emerald mound was very clearly an “oh shit” moment for preservation. There is a driveway, a fence, a plaque , dedicated in 1989, that says a few vagaries about when it was built (this time a 300-year range, which is a little better than the Serpentine mound, which I think was like an 800-year range), a pothole-wrecked path to the top, etc…
The view from the top, including the gutted abandoned house and two ramshackle trailer homes (although it might have been just one sprawling home):
they do have a website! but the facebook group is where its at
http://www.onetoonestudios.org/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=16157571861
awesome, thanks! i'll change
awesome, thanks! i'll change it...
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