Rondacker's Short Notes

After all the years I've known about this event, I finally entered something myself. You can see where's it is located in the left picture. It is one of my objet trouvé pieces, conceived the day the entries were due.
     Bruce and I drove over to see what we thought was a show already hung and on display, so I hadn't brought any recent work to enter. I thought, briefly, of finding a Staples and having some photos printed out from the camera, but that wasn't in the offing. Instead, we went down the street to the New London Antiques Center. In the four floors of neat stuff and detritus was this photo, "Washington DC National Guard 1936". The photo paper was cracked and damaged [likely the picture had been rolled up for storage once] and in the upper rear row of the group photo, one image had been carefully cut from the image. In the spirit of famed Dadaist Marcel Duchamp I decided to enter it into the show. The guys at the Antiques Center thought this was a great idea. I cleaned up the surface, signed and titled it, and went back up the street with my entry.
     Bruce refused to go with me. Later he said he thought I would be arrested. The reception from some folks at the Hygienic was generally positive.
     Outside, as I left, Big Bird stared at me wide-eyed, perhaps in awe. I go back in two weeks to retrieve the found art object. Next year I have to submit something more recent.
     There were other things I saw and observed today, including more stuff at the Antiques Center, but I have not posted about them here. You can read about them on my other blog, Will Brady Journal