HCS III - odds and ends
For those who knew my dad, or maybe have heard me talk about him, know he was a very singular person. And one of my favorite things to do as I relate to him now is to remember him to others, to share stories about him or bits of his work that I have or know of.
One of his resolutions for 2013 was to “Market my work again + make a mark,” and to “Get back out there as a teacher and artist w/ a story to tell.” There’s plenty else tied up with being his family or being his son, but, along the lines of remembering him to others, I’m starting an informal archive of the materials I have of his art-/life-work, perhaps filled in with my own anecdotal memories plus whatever materials might be around online (especially, for example, the digitizing work Kristoffe Brodeur has done of a number of video tapes he left behind.). I don’t know how long it will last, or what all will be covered, but consider this a brief and momentary start to something which may also be brief and momentary.
The creative work is a part of my Dad that I don’t know a lot about—the much he was up to before I was born, and even some during—as he wasn’t often one to volunteer much about his work with us or what it meant to him. But his cutting his own path and making and trying are parts of him I’m particularly proud of and inspired by. And between my own questions personally, my journey artistically, and because I have with me a few boxes of odds and ends that I think are worth sharing, I thought I’d try something new here.
Personalities aside, maybe you can peek through this informal & incomplete blog/archive as a way to see what sorts of things one leaves behind when they go without planning to, odd context-less aspects we are challenged to make sense of.
For me, it’s a way for me to remember this very particular person and to remember him to others; and hopefully it’s also a way for the people whose lives he touched as a teacher/artist to remember him or to know more about him too.
And for Henry III, perhaps, it’s a way for him to go on “making a mark.”
Cheers,
W