back King Plow Art Center, Atlanta © 1996 Tom Ferguson The
inheritor of the King Plow center converted it into an art
center, with live theatre and several galleries...and... invited me to
show there. I chose to exhibit political cartoons and do a
performance as Thinkspeak, doing original songs with Zack Harrison
& Cyndia Hunnicutt. The night of the opening, as I was driving
over, I tuned in the radio and heard the weather forecast, the
announcer pleading with people to stay home tonight, an ice storm
cometh... great! Still about 80 people showed up. King suggested I have
a closing also so we did the same thing at the end, playing for the
people and watching them cruise the show. For the opening I
invited the Seaberg Acrobatic Poets & they performed while
Thinkspeak improvised - really uncanny how the music would happen to
fit what they
were doing. Other poets read also, Bob Darby and the Sisters Without
Mercy showed up to menace the patriarchy. Actually I think they were
stopped by the ice. I did have to scrape my windows to leave that
night. These photos show only the paintings I hung at the entrance, not
the cartoons which are viewable at http://toons.thinkspeak.net I
didn't realize that King rented the place out for conventions. I came
in the first saturday to sit the show and found I was expected to pay
to come
in and displays were strewn everywhere in front of the paintings and
cartoons. I was furious of course, my ego totally hooked. The trade
apparently was: the art was there to decorate the receptions etc; that
were held but when the paying customers wanted to put up displays that
blocked the art, well, sobeit. Time heals all ego wounds.
