Margaret Dragu and Pam Hall

Goodbye Sackville !!!

We leave some traces …

Final Verbs: taking down, wrapping, chatting, laughing, eating, drinking, sharing, story telling …

Sad Goodbyes but Longing for Home

With Deepest Gratitude

M & P

xoxoxoox

Pam and Margaret invited Adriana’s 3rd Yr Sculpture Class

and local artsts (incl. Linda Rae above)

to re-arrange the squares into New Conversations, topics, riffs …

followed by talking over hot chocolate/coffee & muffins.

Thanks to: Alicia, Erin # 1 & #2, Adriana, Rachel, Preston, Kristen, Vanessa, Linda & Anne

It is fabulous to have the opportunity to talk about art with other artists from Sackville/Moncton, Montreal/TO, Syracuse…

… formally during Symposium’s “Performing Sackville” Panel Wed. Oct 22

and informally at STRUTS whilst Pam & I

JAZZ SKAT improvise [verbally & with our bodies] a call & response performance of hanging our laundry in public.

(NB: Mount Allison art class & folks who have dropped in to STRUTS are coming Tuesday 8:30 am to re-hang our squares in New Conversations).

There were 2 very good artist talks, too.

Tom Sherman’s Keynote Address: Messages that Stick (and ways to escape the limitations of adhesion)

which was about things closing down due to prevailing Messaging Culture

and Jake Moore’s “from strand to structure”

which was about things opening up due to open source languages.

These high fiber apricot bran muffins are good for Pam’s and my FARMERS HOURS at Struts/Faucet.

It is a STARBUCK Conspiracy that we should all be drinking soya lattes with a rich/fatty/sweet hunk of dessert every morning.

Dragu”s Muffins

One Bowl:  1 cup unbleached flour, 1 cup bran, 2tsp. baking powder

2nd Bowl: 1/2 cup yoghurt, 1/2 cup milk, 2 eggs, 3 tbls sugar, 1/4 cup canola oil

Add wet to dry with 1/2 cup scissor-snipped dried apricots and bake in oiled muffin tin at 350 degrees.

xoxox

Margaret

HUNTING & GATHERING

Save Easy’s 50% Off Deals, Salvation Army Thrift Store

BREAKFASTING

Dark Roast Coffee, Computer (email/facebook; Goddard)

LEARNING FROM AMANDA & PAUL & PAM

Final Cut Pro, Photoshoppe, Scanning, USB-Driving, iCapturing, iMoviemaking, Skyping, Rendering, Over-riding, & Creatively Filling Lag Time

BODY WORKING

Yoga @ Noon, Gym @ 4:30 pm, Waterfowl Park Walk

ITERATIVE

Squares/carres: fabric, jpegs, post cards, flying bamboo houses, body-sized 2-dimensional houses, laundry lines, facebook photo albums, web/skype transmissions ….

LUNCHING

Every Day — Amazing Salad by Pam

STUDIO

Atalier in Gallery, Faucet, Film Set @ Brick Wall in Backyard, Dance Studio in Parking Lot, Alley of Arrows

DANCING

X’s & O’s, Flying V’s, Cage’s Cards & Dice, Social Dance Forms as Transitions; Finding Exquisite Balance/Fit with Pam Parter-ing

STUDIES

Clothes Line Conversations, Spines, Harbour Feet Walks …
DINNER @ 7:00 pm

followed by Nightly Experimental Film Viewing

Thanks to STRUTS and Linda Montano

ps. I cannot draw and I am drawing it.

xoxoxo Margaret Dragu

Dear Stephen,

Just to let you know

THIS is where me and my artist pals shop for our fabulous BALL GOWNS

(
to attend all those big art GALAS you were talking about.
And this is what we eat

at our big art BANQUETS.

xoxoxo

Margaret Dragu

Hi! It is Margaret here. Pam and I are in Sackville to explore and develop MARGINALIA — a correspondence project between Pam (St. John’s Newfoundland, Atlantic Ocean, East) and me (Finn Slough BC, Pacific Ocean, West) that we began in February 2004.  We have made 3000+ 12″ X 12″ squares/carres that are windows, diaries, paintings, poems of our lives — a soft book of memories.Some squares are in the installation right GETTING OUT OF THE HOUSE at the Richmond Art Gallery in BC until November 16th.  The rest we have brought to Struts along with our email/video/audio correspondence. The plan is to make a series of studies employing video and projection with performance and silhouettes to deepen our conversation and play around topics of distance, margins, home, community, aging and sexuality.  Daily Verbs: swimming, shopping, cooking, shooting, digitizing, shadow playing, yoga practice, sorting, looking, learning, going to the gym, walking, walking, walking, talking about art, making art, and making friends …. Sackville is achingly autumnally gorgeous. The Sackville Waterfowl Park is full of walking trails, plovers, wood ducks and an awesome public art project. Tonight after we check our shadow shots that we took at the railway track,  we are hiking on the beaches.The daily combo of swimming, yoga, & walking is why we named our residency WORKING IT OUT — except with carbs. Good carbs. Like the multigrain rye and flax bread from the local bakery (see photo).  The staff at STRUTS are terrific. We are  thrilled to be here!