The Canvas Continues To Scroll

When I was a kid my dad and I would go to the movies a lot. I can remember one time when we set out to see The Empire Strikes Back after it had been re-released into theaters. Back before we all had home movie players of some sort this is how you got to see a movie again. Somehow we got our times mixed up and the movie showing was Raiders of the Lost Ark. A movie that was not even on my kid radar at the time, life was all about Star Wars. But since we were there and it was a single screen theater, we decided to see it. Which turned out to be serendipity.

Why am I telling you this? Because of one line in that movie. A mere moment in the film that I always wait for, to this day, every time I watch Raiders of the Lost Ark. It is about 2/3 into the movie. Indy has found the Ark, had it taken away from him, destroyed the plane it was supposed to leave on and is now hiding from the Nazis. His friend Sallah informs him that the Nazis have loaded the Ark onto a truck. Indiana then replies, "Meet me at Omar’s. I am going after that truck."

Sallah asks, "How?"

Indiana, "I don’t know, I am making this up as I go."

That is the line that over the years I have always loved to hear. I think because it sums up how I do a lot of things in life. Like this blog for example. The dialogue of my movie might go something like this:

Daryle: "Through a blog I am going to help the art and artists of Fort Collins."

Sallah: "How?"

Daryle: "I don’t know I am making this up as I go."

I bring this up because I have been getting asked about Art Palaver and ZAF622 quite a bit lately. What is my plan? Where are they going? Questions of that nature. I thought I would do some thinking out loud to help with those questions. I don’t have a plan. I have ideas. I have dreams. I have hopes. But I do not have a plan mapped out. I can almost hear some of you screaming at the screen, "You have to have a plan!" After all failing to plan is planning to fail. There is wisdom in that.  But for me it was more important to act than to plan.

I do know that I want to help get the word out about art happenings around town. And I know I want to bring people together. And I believe a blog can do those things. I good blog can be a community of people having a constant dialogue. Art Palaver is not at the point yet but I believe one day it will be. I have talked to people who have made connections with each other because of ZAF622 and Art Palaver so I know it is possible, we just need to keep working at it.

It is important for me to know what you want to hear about. Do you like the artist interviews of ZAF622? (they will be back very very soon by the way.) Do you like hearing about art openings around town or do you see enough of that elsewhere? Do you want more links to interesting things going on in the larger art world? Are you looking for grant and funding information? How about how-to stuff? What mediums are you most interested in? Do you understand blogs and how they work? Do you know you can get each post emailed to you? Or read them via an RSS reader? Talk to me. You can either leave a comment in the form below or email me at daryle@artpalaver.com.

Bottom line I believe in art. I believe in artists. I believe in community. I am doing what I can.

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