It was Tuesday evening and I was flopping around, just trying to come up with a theme for Wednesday’s post, when out of the blue, Dan came to my rescue.  Yeah, Dan!  His first art show at CalArts opens on Thursday and he was kind enough to send me some photos of his work in the show.  It looks to me like something he could have made at home, on our dining room table.

Earlier this year he had sent out this Facebook announcement:

Halley’s Brief and Uncharacteristic Apparition*
*Actual Title: The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‘Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.’ (An Exhibition of Astronomical Proportions)

Opening Reception Thursday Jan. 20th 7-11 PM, Lime Gallery

Dan’s theme and subtitle come from the life story of Missourian, Mark Twain and who better to explain it, but the man himself, from his autobiography:

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year (1910), and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: “Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.”

These five images in this post are photos from Dan’s show.  The first image is a bit off, it is actually taller than it looks in the photo, but it had to be shot with a wide-angle lens just to fit it in the frame, because of the small size of the gallery.  The dining room table is very similar to our dining room table, except for the holes cut into it.  He acquired it from one of his roommates who was going to pitch it.  It looks like his “space rocks” really rock.  It also looks like he has a dampening system on the floor.  I wonder what it would look like if during his opening, southern California experienced an earthquake.  Just a little one …