Muddy Water's Regulars

Concept

A time capsule. A sentimental momento of a certain day and a certain group of people whom I may never seen again.

Method

I applied the method I use on my two dimensional paintings (photo-copy glued to canvas with acrylic medium then painted with acrylic) to a three dimensional object.

Inside the can are 9 strips of canvas and a piece of paper.

Each of the 9 canvas strips are roughly one inch by three feet. All (except for one) of these strips list a name of a person, a name of a drink, and a description of the person listed. The names correspond to a regular of Muddy Water's (where I worked at the time) that happened to be in the cafe on February 2, 2001; the drink listed is the drink they usually order; and the description is my candid perception of the person. The last strip is a copy of the NASDAQ listing for Etoys (a company that had recently gone under) and the three stocks following the ETYS entry in the New York Times for February 2, 2001.

Written on the piece of paper, is a surreal narrative mysteriously left on a table on the evening of February 2, 2001. The photo I used for the outside of the can was an image I took some years back of two friends whom I do not see very often any more. This link lists the texts that comprised the contents of the can.

The work has been given to a friend of mine, Kaz Matula whom had introduced me to the people pictured in the original photograph. He wanted a painting and instead I gave him this. He was contemplating moving away from San Francisco to Los Angeles at the time, and I very much wanted him to stay. I was hoping that this might help express how much I wanted him to stay.

Kaz never made it to Los Angeles. He passed away two days after New York lost it's twin towers. He was my closest and dearest friend and words cannot express the loss I feel without him.

This web page was once as a momento to a non event on 2/2/01. Now it serves as a remembrance of a dear friend who passed on.