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Sunday February 15th 2009, 26 people made there way to the Sears Portrait Studio for the latest installment of Family Portraits. Check out the back front of the group picture here, and check the side bar links for some of the small shots. It was a wonderful group of lovely people. Several couldn’t make it and they were missed. If you are interested in Blue let me know!

This is very exciting. With the 2nd official text from the project the participation improved. Here are Four drawings and below are other texts sent grouped by category.

Erin Shafkind texted: Tiny creatures in a vast forest. What could they be dreaming about?

replies below:

Aaron K:Some dream of cozy hidey-holes, others see unimaginable heights…

John A: The annual self-cannibalism and frati-immolation festival, duh

Brandon K: The weiner mobile of Course!

Jeffrey E: Moonpies, fizzies, and other yummy things from lands far and near.

Helga H: Springtime crochet tea parties.

Shellwyn B: The forest spirit.

Skip: Stink Mushrooms

Rory M: Warmth

Larry N: Fucking their brethren

Evan B: Sex and food

Tim C: Having sex in the rain under a giant mushroom

Amy-Ellen: Bulldozers comin their way!

Liz S: Nightmares about the thin line between celebrities and wax figures.

Bellen D: Delphi says like humans they could be dreaming about a lot of things

Kareem: Trapezing in the trees.

Charla: Wondering if there’s life outside the forest

Romy S: I have been noting the important role of the footlocker on my life. Any thoughts?

Erin S:Dreaming of who will be their tiny forest Valentine.

Here’s the Wiener Mobile and Rudolph chillin’ in the grass. It’s a challenge project to use the Wiener Mobile in an art project. Just beginning to play around.

So I am beginning a texting discourse that starts with some kind of image phrase. Possibly poetic, depending on how you want to interpret it. Then I send it out to about 50 people and see what types of responses I get. For this one I received about 6 replies of varying interest. I then proceeded to draw some of the replies, scanned them and am now posting them to this blog. I am thinking of calling the project DAD (digital/analog/digital) or DADA (digital/Analog/digital/access). Any thoughts?

Here’s the responses:

Erin Texted on January 24th, 2009: Circles, Lines and Squares. It’s a flat architecture with several windows.

Evan sent: Is this a riddle?

Erin texted: In a way, yes.

Evan sent: a blue print?

Tim sent: Diamonds! (by the way, they burn at 800 degrees Celsius)

Nate sent: A Ding-Dong Pattern

Charla sent: Oh I love it!

Romy sent: This is your last leap…Oh evil one!

Kareem sent: Hm. Maybe the windows are for seeing through, for those who hope for dimensionality beyond. Maybe birds hit them.

Enrico sent: It’s not the shapes that compel you, but the spaces in between.