Enrique Chagoya and I gave our talk last night at the Palm Springs Museum. It went well and we had a very good turn out. We talked about our collaborations which began in 1997 with "Hand of Power". We've done more than a dozen prints together.....many of them books or "codices". The newest one "Histoire Naturelle des Espécies: Illegal Alien's Manuscript" (shown above) is on the press in the studio. I'll be printing the last three of the twelve plates this week.
It was nice to be able to see Enrique's survey exhibition at the Palm Springs Museum. I've been able to see the show at all of the three venues (Des Moines Art Center, Berkeley At Museum, Palm Springs Museum). It's surprising how the look of exhibition varies at each venue. Some pieces stand out at one venue and not another. The relationships between the work change depending on the installations. The work resonates in different ways each time I've seen it. Even the prints that I've printed and am so familiar with take on new meaning in different contexts.
