LAURA HEIT

Most of two short pieces by the wonderfully wonderful artist Laura Heit from last weekend’s rather mixed Black Sheep Puppet Festival at the Brew House Association on the South Side. While Heit’s performance was all the things experimental theater should be: engaging, stimulating and absolutely entertaining, much of what we saw seemed haphazard and something of a shambles. We walked out after enduring enough of one excruciating performance that hardly featured much puppetry at all.

HALLOWEEN HOUSE

Over on the South Side is a magical place where all your very special Halloween dreams can come true. The price of admission is merely YOUR SOUL!

SWEEPING CHANGES

Taking another break from all that naughty yelling he does, our neighbor gets busy. Perhaps the most touching part of this tender event is when he takes the rubbish from the lawn and throws it into the street, which I guess for some is just one big fucking dust bin.

A FOREST

Somewhere in the Ohiopyle park.

FILM PORTRAITS

I’ve made a deal with myself to draw every day and my method is to stop whatever film I’m watching and draw directly from a still. There’s no real resemblance to whom these renderings are supposed to be representing, but there’s something to be said about the practice of practice to get any results at all.

MOVEMENT

It was a few weeks ago, the end of summer. There was water in my camera, and we were heading somewhere on a very warm day. Seems so long ago. I made the music for something else but it seemed to work just fine for this.

HOUSE

The apartment just turned a hundred this year. It’s something like a perfectly preserved time capsule and aged to perfection. Residuals from the previous tenant are everywhere, accumulations of some other life.