Freedom of the Press : kEith and Picasso

above: excerpt from the Fort Collins Coloradoan May 20, 2005 : kEith kimmel & Picasso

Locals perhaps know the difficulty getting the Fort Collins Coloradoan to cooperate when it comes to deeper news. Remarkably, though, the paper, part of the Gannett conglomerate, saw to mention the Truth and Lies Experiment in their Friday Ticket a (What to do for the weekend) section. [Editors we are grateful for the recognition.]

The 3 featured weekend events included the Truth and Lies Experiment, The Ringling Broths. and Barnum and Bailey Circus and a Picasso exhibit, "Picasso: His Art and Influences". Indeed, good company.

“The Greatest Show on Earth,” they call it . 'Course the Ringling circus is so 20th century and seemingly cruel.

Now, Picasso.

I recall the Picasso Documentary on A&E, the one that played (thanks to the Tivo) most everyday in March while I feverishly painted in the basement, the Truth and Lies Experiment being produced, you know.

Can’t help but think, being in the paper, Picasso and me together. Perhaps he's been here all along?

Observation: When I was 20, I had a vision watching Pope John Paul II's Christmas Mass on television. This cathedral had balconies. There, in the seats were dead, famous people, like Abe Lincoln. This vision was as real as anything, not like a hallucination or what. So these dead people were attending the mass, they seemd to be free to come and go as they pleased. And I was the only living human, it seemed, who could see them.

I never saw Picasso.

Now, in the poster, which can be seen when one first enters the Truth and Lies Experiement venue, I quote Juan Gris, the cubist who Gertrude Stein acknowledged, "was the one person that Picasso would have willingly wiped off the map."

Abstract Thought: Could I interact with an artist no longer here, yet somewhere, in some other place?