DOT-TO-DOT HISTORY: Circuit #1
June 2000 Project
June 2000 Project
JUNE 2000 Dot-to-Dot Artists
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Celine Geroud-female, from the Boston, age 21, Photographer.
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Doug-male, from San Diego, age 20, painter/musician, currently studying Mayan Calander.
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Floyd Cornwell-male, from Denver, age 26, painter/musician.
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Jason Rogalski-male, born in South California, age 30, obsessed with art, infinity symbol scarred into his ankle.
At the 1st orphanage...Casa Hogar San Inocencio
We passed out paper and drawing supplies and asked the kids to draw their favorite thing from nature.
Francisco Cabello gave a short talk on why art is important. We all drew together for a while. Jason and Francisco worked on a large collaborative drawing which they donated to the orphanage. Eventually Doug and Floyd broke the silence by playing a variety of exotic musical instuments...from Tibetan singing bowls to digerri-doos. They brought materials so everyone could make digerri-doos.
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Most everyone drew on their didgerri-doos and played...things started getting loud...so we went out to the field.
In the center of the field, we set up a variety of musical instruments; drums, a guitar, a flute and some other more experimental instruments. Several of us started playing music! |
Jason brought out a huge tank of water and squirt bottles. He showed that one could draw by squirting water into the dirt.
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He asked them to draw the music using this water/dirt technique. |
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They brought their pet goat... |
Some of the water from the tank spilt, making mud...Celine noticed it was a good clay and encouraged a group to sculpt with it.
They made heads and turtles, which were baked in the sun.
Some of the kids were riding bikes, Jason started riding one too. They followed perfectly behind him where ever he rode...so he rode in a giant infinity symbol, over and over, together they made a visible mark in the dirt...a drawing...by riding their bikes.
Overall, the whole project went great. And much thanks to Carmen Limon who organized this event and Celia Hernandez, our videographer.
Overall, the whole project went great. And much thanks to Carmen Limon who organized this event and Celia Hernandez, our videographer.
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Two local papers ran stories about Dot-to-Dot! |
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One paper was from Rosarito and the other was from Tiajuana.
That night we camped at La Fonda...KM 58. Great surf!
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The next morning, Doug and Jason did a collaboration with a group of Korean missionaries, who were on thier way to Africa. Doug and Jason made a giant mandala at the base of a cliff. The missionaries did a dance like play in it. Many people watched from the top of the cliff.
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As we crossed the vast desert, we encountered a federale road block. Doug and Floyd jammed with them.
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We continued 4 hours south... at San Jacinto, we all collaborated on this baño. Jason surfed long point break waves that never seemed to end. |
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Next, we camped at Bahia de los Angeles, 8 hours south. One day Jason became obsessed with body art. He did several strange works...one used a live octopus that he caught. Celine photographed it for him and later, she collaborated by adding a reverse photo.
Our truck broke down in the desert...Floyd and Jason did a car healing piece.
At the 2nd orphanage...Padres de los Ninos
This project ran similar to the first.
This project ran similar to the first.
We warmed them up with drawings, then merged into music and moved outdoors...this time to a backyard playground....
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We did water drawings in the dirt and on the walls... |
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We did a new project with them! |
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Each of the four Dot-to-Dot artists had a 2 ft. by 4ft. panel...with a different theme and different supplies.
Jason's was all yellow, orange and red cloth, paint, gold foils. He painted his face with metalic gold face paint and claimed he was an artist from the sun. Anybody who wanted to paint on his panel could, but they had to put some gold face paint on and draw a picture of the sun with red crayon on yellow paper. Doug's panel was green paint which they were mixing with dirt and smearing on with their hands. Floyd had a variety of mediums including glitter, which they were tossing into the air as to allow it to rain down on the gluey panel. Celine used string and beads which were applied to their panel. Special thanks to Santini, of The Giorgio Santini Gallery, who facilitated this event.
Jason's was all yellow, orange and red cloth, paint, gold foils. He painted his face with metalic gold face paint and claimed he was an artist from the sun. Anybody who wanted to paint on his panel could, but they had to put some gold face paint on and draw a picture of the sun with red crayon on yellow paper. Doug's panel was green paint which they were mixing with dirt and smearing on with their hands. Floyd had a variety of mediums including glitter, which they were tossing into the air as to allow it to rain down on the gluey panel. Celine used string and beads which were applied to their panel. Special thanks to Santini, of The Giorgio Santini Gallery, who facilitated this event.
One month later, the panels were re-combined into a whole as Dot-to-Dot showed all of this work at the San Francisco Art Institute. The show became a piece within itself. Celine, Floyd, Doug and Jason worked together as if they were doing a single gigantic collaborative painting. They used art work produced on the trip (by children, various artists and themselves) as if it were huge chunks of paint. After the first layer was arranged on the wall, they used ropes to secure a second layer which was composed entirely of the children's work.
Many people said they enjoyed the show. Here are a couple details.
The drive back to San Francisco was a grueling 16 hours! We slept in the truck next to the freeway and in the morning drove deeper & deeper into faster traffic and more & more humans. It was such a stark contrast to our 2 weeks in the desert. As we approached San Francisco, our truck caught on fire! Jason pulled over and ripped off his shirt to use as a tool to smother out the fire. Later, he wrote the story of the truck fire on that very shirt, then stretched it as an art piece.