MONDAY May 22nd PART A

photo: Tanya Lukin-Linklater "WOMAN AND WATER"

Part A: Blankets, Ribbons, Circles

The enigmatic & efficient Todd Janes
took me shopping to Whyte Ave's Army and Navy
to buy ribbons & cream cheese for Tanya's performance
plus dishcloths & tea towels for Todd and me.
[I have pursuaded Todd to do performance-gestures with me
before/during/after my video screening of
CLEANING AND LOVING (IT) and
MORE CLEANING AND LOVING (IT)
Wednesday at 8:00 pm
[Be there or be square]...

We joined the other Visualeyez Artists
(including Clemente Padin of Uruguay
who arrived after a 32hour flight)
at the Reflecting Pool in front of Edmonton's City Hall.
The Reflecting Pool is full of happy splashing children
as it is 25 degrees and very sunny. The pool is surrounded
by The Art Gallery of Alberta, CBC, Citadel Theatre,
the general public and a 3-person security team in good humour
but still an active presence managing the homeless, street youth,
working poor and transients who also claim this pool as their own.

We need more cream cheese so I go to ANOTHER mall.
When I return (with light -- 50% less fat), Tanya Lukin-Linklater
has laid out 6 or 7 blankets in a circle
and encircled them with ribbons. She slowly walks around her blanket circle.
A gallery crew person hands out slips of paper saying
"This is a performance by artist Tanya Lukin-Linklater"
with descriptions of who she is and her art practice
along with the how-to's to contact Latitude 53.