Gene Coffee is a block from my house and I'm there daily--sometimes two times a day--if I have time in the morning I hang out with a croissant or breakfast wrap and a coffee talking to Gideon, the owner, and reading magazines--the coffee is incredible and it's a comfortable neighborhood meeting place--nothing happens fast and I like that--I've been slowly constructing the base of his coffee bar for many months now--it's a constantly changing ongoing project that very well never be finished--
It started as a ladder Gideon put on a 2'x4' pony wall and filled with concrete--my biggest fear when he approached me about the project was that it might fall over and crush customers but we worked out some triangular supports to eliminate that possibility--I like the shape it's taking and I'm excited to see what form it takes in its slow organic progression--
Gideon and Kendal in front of the delicious croissants
Gideon doing something important
I guess every creative process is at some level collage.
ReplyDeleteI think that's very true--I think it can also be a matter of stripping elements away to find the simplest and strongest means of expression--reverse collage of sorts
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