Last Wednesday, Arne, Jed, Catleah and I drove north to Smoke Farm, with a truck load of old shoes, guns and a video camera. We tagged each submission with a number, wrote a number on the bottom of each shoe, and then mixed up the numbers one more time to insure for a completely random and unbiased selection process. Then we drove out into a beautiful green prairie. And lined all of these old shoes along a short wood wall. And then started shooting. Lots and lots of shooting. Eventually one shoe remained. It was a very simple brown leather flat that my mom had in a bag headed towards Goodwill. It took quite a few shots, but just didn’t feel like falling over. And on the bottom of this brown leather flat was the number 26- a number that pointed directly, and without question, to one Miss Saskia Delores. While the video of this is forthcoming, we needed to call Saskia, hand her a healthy stack of $500.00 cash and keep the Arbitrary Art Grant train moving. Next up, graphic design.
photos courtesy of Catleah Cunanan