[H&R] A modest proposal from PDL

[Steven Vroom]

Dear Friends,

Thank you for joining us at the Olympic Sculpture Park yesterday for a 
beautiful, sun-filled afternoon of art appreciation. We set up our 
installation without a snag and had a wonderful breakfast at the 
Shanty. When we returned, our Wake(up)tm installation was in full 
effect with tourists and art enthusiasts alike all wondering and 
contemplating this new partnership between SAM and Starbucks Coffee. We 
sat with stretched ears and listened to the full range of responses, 
from "Isn't anything sacred anymore?" to "This will be really nice for 
the tourists." Some wondered how much Starbucks had to pay for such 
prime real estate while one fine lady exclaimed, "Finally sculpture is 
meaningful!" It was a little strange to hear an approval of WAKE 
(up)tm, and visitors explaining the idea to their family. 

We appreciate all of the friends and curiosity seekers who came down to 
pay us a visit. Certainly it was a beautiful weekend to be other 
places, and for those of you who missed the one day installation, 
please see the attached photos. This is part two of an ongoing 
exploration of site specific temporary art installations in public 
space and we hope that you might stumble across a future PDL project in 
Bellevue or Seattle.

PDL's next adventure will happen at Smoke Farm on Saturday, August 16, 
when they dust off one of their Portable Confessional Units and plant 
it in a beautiful prairie. It looks like a cross between a giant Ipod 
and a Honey Bucket and is equipped to extract all of your toxic 
thought. It's a great invention and a good time. If you don't know 
about Smoke Farm or their yearly performance festival, get with the 
program (www.smokefarm.org), it is a treasure and floating down the 
river is, well, just something you should do between events.

PDL would like to thank Michael Darling and the SAM staff for allowing 
PDL to punk them. It says a lot about a large arts organization that is 
willing to be misrepresented, misunderstood and the subject of 
potentially misdirected criticism and disapproval- all in the name of 
artistic exploration, social experimentation and fun. It is rare and 
refreshing. We hope that an espresso stand is never embedded into a 
sculpture at OSP without great conceptual intent. Hey- maybe that is 
where all this leads... I think we are onto something... Maybe 
corporate sponsorship and utility IS the future of contemporary art. It 
would be a wonderful world indeed if sculpture really did have a 
purpose. We can dream.

Sincerely,
PDL

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On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Joseph Gray wrote:

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