Creative Cogitation

So I came back from the 2009 Flo­rence Bien­nale, rolling into to Sky Har­bor shortly after mid­night Decem­ber 16 sicker ‘n a dog.  I spent the hol­i­days watch­ing Christ­mas shows, box of tis­sue in hand, my IQ hov­er­ing between PB&J and pot­ted plant.  Need­less to say work­ing on putting my pic­tures together in a photo album on line with a trav­el­ogue was the fur­thest thing from my mind.  The hol­i­days ended offi­cially for me on Jan­u­ary 9 when my last house guest left.  I had a lot to catch up on, but I have been work­ing steadily on crunch­ing down those pic­tures, putting on cap­tions and oth­er­wise mak­ing them suit­able for a web­site etc.  Early this morn­ing I posted the last of the pic­tures and went “live.”

Jake Beck­man at entrance to Flo­rence Bien­nale fea­tur­ing Marina Abro­movic photo

The link to the Flo­rence Bien­nale Expe­ri­ence is:  http://akajake.com/florence-biennial-experience.htm

Work­ing on the pic­tures brought back many fond mem­o­ries for me and had me doing things like see­ing how many peo­ple (that I befriended at the bien­nale) I could find on face­book.  I real­ized as I was going through the pic­tures that I didn’t get pic­tures of many peo­ple I talked to and I didn’t get pic­tures of their art — guess I was too busy being at the Bien­nale instead of doc­u­ment­ing it. I was in sev­eral group pho­tos but I didn’t force the cam­era off onto the ran­domly drafted pho­tog­ra­pher often enough either. So I do have a request… If you were a par­tic­i­pant in the Flo­rence Bien­nale and have other pic­tures you would like to add to this con­ver­sa­tion, please post them.

So far early com­ments have been pos­i­tive.  I hope you will enjoy it too,  Any­way, let me know what you think.  I would love to hear from you.

Jake

Artist, AKAJake.com Come Expe­ri­ence the Art!

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