Visit Provincetown

Discover Ptown, LGBT Friendly Collage is one of my favorite ART forms and recently I has a  chance to speak to one of my favorite Collage Artists…Sian Robertson who has a show up this month @the Adam Peck Gallery that you should NOT miss! I’d never heard of it before but my mum took me to Madrid when I was maybe 20 and I walked into a room in the Prado (this is back in the days when the painting was still at that location) and there it was; huge, and amazing, and full of gut wrenching heartache and the horrors of war, and I’d never before been so moved by a piece of art. Robert Rindler, a Cape Cod artist, who had the most incredible show at PAAM where he did an installation entirely created from plastic objects found at the Outer Cape transfer stations, all sorted by color and shape and other rather random criteria. I’d go to member shows at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and I’d see pieces by people I knew; friends, acquaintances, the person who sold me stamps at the post office, or waited on me at a restaurant, or poured my beer at a bar.

What is it that has attracted creative people like you to Ptown and Cape Cod? I think what first attracted artist to Ptown was the clay and after that it was the music. How I wish I was around when Provincetown was about live music, now it seem real instruments are lost. How lucky we are that  Artists like Frankie are still Living Loving and Laughing amid the STUFF of the BIGGER world in or little world set as far out into the ocean as one can walk  before falling off in this tiny magical place called Provincetown.

Sebastian, I’d like to say that after reading about most of the talented artists you’ve interviewed for Speaking of Art, it’s a humbling feeling to be in this company. Last year I launched a fine art photography eZine called SHIZEN,(She-Zen), a FREE, no-ad, one click downloadable PDF for any device which anyone is welcome to download. My mother Judy took me to the Louvre, read me poetry, and took me to see Impressionism, sculpture and Japanese art in museums from Kyoto to New Delhi to London. Last year I launched a fine art photography eZine called SHIZEN,(She-Zen), a FREE, no-ad, one click downloadable PDF for any device which anyone is welcome to download.

I discovered the music from the 60’s and 70’s with an entire world of new sounds I had never heard before. I am giving you some insight about my professional background because I think it’s important to understand that when I decide to pursue music production full time, there had been a 20 years gap in music technology that I had totally missed. Like many of our predecessors who started settling in the 1920’s and ‘30’s as artists, writers, dramatists, poets, romantics, and journalists, there are a few reasons why Ptown can be a source of inspiration. Also it’s location at the tip of the cape procures a sense of isolation and I think solitude and the ability of shutting down from the outside world is necessary to get creative work done.