Today is the day Millicent Brown is coming!

Today is the day she may have forgotten to come!

Today Gwylène and I may have an unusually healthy lunch.

It is 12:49 – no Millicent. We wait until 1:30.

People you respect you are civil with.

Older people always have issues they need space for, time for.

This episode of inviting Millicent Brown to have lunch with us, to show her the Tale and to talk about its relevance, has pushed me to work a bit harder on the Tale, in the studio. But it is so tedious, for me. I have been used to building rather large and rough installations, inspired by the input of others and built for and with others. ‘a Tale of Charleston’, turned into ‘a Tale for Reparations’ is mostly a solitary adventure. And, don’t forget, without the support of any words at all.

Unfortunately, since I cannot fully count on the quality of my detail work either, what may save the effort is the diversity of materials, colors, sources, imageries. My sense of minimal-like design. For observers, it may be very puzzling at first. But I am still pretty sure that, just as in poetry, it is often at the end of the piece, when its (es)sensibility has been fully uncovered, that the imagination soars.

It’s a miss!

Millicent is not showing up.

She has, nevertheless, forced me to synthesize my thinking around ‘a Tale’. Next time, I will be better prepared!

Let’s eat!