With | Hold
So it’s been a full week here and what have I done? Well, I began as I often do at a residency: start with a painting that has been lurking about and exorcize it. Fortunately, the piece that has been gray-matter-squatting ties in well with my desired focus whilst here at Monson: exploring gesture as both a way of learning and expressing a mindset, and employing new gestures to unlearn a thing you want to change.
Monson, ME, population: 619
I’m at a residency in Monson, Maine and will be here for the next month. Monson is located in the Highlands of Maine only about an hour and a half in from the Quebec border. Population, according to the 2020 census, is 609 people, apparently all of them super friendly and born with the ability to learn your name and commit it to memory within five seconds of meeting you.