DOT-TO-DOT HISTORY: Circuit #2
November 99 Project
November 99 Dot-to-Dot Artists
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Lisa Andrews-female, from Boston, age 22, Photographer.
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Ramon Comacho-male, from San Diego, age 25, anarchist/artist. |
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Macon Reed-female, from West Virginia, age 19, painter.
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Nina Chesakov-female, born in Moscow, anti-tradition artist, age 20, obsessed with 'purple', big purple dreads with various objects tied in.
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Sergio-male, age 21, from Boston, political activist.
Hoang Nguyen-male, born in Vietnam and raised in France, age 40, film maker, hard to keep up with.
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Jason Rogalski-male, born in Southern California, age 29, obsessed with art, drawn to bodies of water, alters his appearance regularly, infinity symbol scarred into his ankle, married to Brandie. Click here for Jason's Portfolio!
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Brandie Maddalena-female, from Northern California, very 'nature' based, explores life-art concepts, age 26, hates shoes, well read, tattoo of infinity symbol on ankle, married to Jason.
In Rosarito...
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Kevin Puluzzi-from Michigan, musician, explores the 'intangable'. |
We got ready at Francisco and Lucy's house. Francisco Cabello and Lucy De Hoya are both well-known artists from Rosarito.
Francisco and Lucy facilitated the Dot-to-Dot event, and attended as Dot-to-Dot artists.
At the assembly, we were surprised with over 400 kids!
We passed out paper and a pack of crayons to every child and asked them to draw a dream they had while sleeping. They got to keep the pack of crayons.
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Many of the Dot-to-Dot artists were wearing costumes.
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They each had a project to instigate...they dispersed into the crowd of drawing children.
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As always...Litia was behind the scenes...making it happen!
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Lisa dressed as a fairy and did series of collaborative floor paintings.
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Brandie's costume was overalls with many giant pockets sewn in. Each pocket held the materials for a different art project. This one, she called "The Weaving". About twenty kids worked with her to stretch the rubber into a woven layer. Some kids went beneath it, others strummed it like a musical instrument.
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After the assembly, we went to a party with many local artists.
Ramon and Jason did a piece in which they jammed with a traditional mariachi band on experimental music instruments. Jason used chunks of rebar hung from rubber straps to make a variety of sounds, while Ramon used P.V.C. pipe to make a didgeri-doo style instrument.
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Later, Jason and Francisco did a collaboration in which they used a bucket of water and a ladel to do a giant street drawing. Sometimes cars would drive through the drawing or families would walk through...eventually it evaporated. |
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Hoang made an wonderful 16mm film of the trip. He showed it later in the year at the San Francisco Art Institute.
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We camped at Bahia de los Angeles...we did a lot of art, much was music based. We made intruments and played music in the caves for Thanksgiving. |
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Brandie became obsessed with cacti photography. |
It was a GREAT TRIP! And the dream drawings from Benito Juarez Primaria (the Rosarito elementary school) were presented in a show at the San Francisco Art Institute through January.
Thanks to everybody!!!