silver jewelry ...
George Wein, acquiring ... 91 Limited Edition ...
spent the morning polishing silver jewelry that i designed during '91 - preparing for photographs to include in the "signals and cells" series upload on the web page archives ...
a massive amount of work to edit and arrange - sometimes i forget different projects i was involved in because of the speed of life at the time - but it was a wonderful, sensuous, and almost archaeological experience - massaging the tarnish and blemishes from the surfaces to reveal the qualities i worked to achieve on the pieces; and remembering, uncovering memories ...
raining steadily outside, neutral grey light, with Miles Davis playing modalities in the background ... it doesn't matter how many times i hear Miles [1964 to present] - i always discover something - always new ...
then i recalled having a bit of a run in with him around the same time as doing the jewelry ...
i was asked to do the 91 Newport Jazz Festival poster, and before going into production, Miles saw the proof at George Wein's NYC office - Miles didn't think we should use an image he thought was him, without getting a 'piece' of it - he later let it go with my defense that he couldn't patent posture and that i didn't intentionally represent him - i was only trying to capture the essence of 'cool' and 'jazz', which in effect, is who he was to the core anyway ...
truth is, they were swirls of paint that i Rorschach'd images of jazz - and Miles would have been part of that visual vocabulary ...
anyway, a tender day ...
