An invitation

An invitation to the opening of Kids of Lower Utopia, V6 No.2 Softdoor's Older Sister's I-AM Knot (The Story of River Scout Finnagain) at Ricco/Maresca Gallery NYC. I began this gallery comic in the spring of 2000 and finishing in the summer of 2001, it is number two in its series, and I am now working on number three. It is pencil on paper, and the original pages measure 33" x 51", it's a fucking monster.
So imagine how bad this timing is, a gallery opening in NYC two days after the fall of the World Trade Towers. You can imagine my show, during the Thursday of the first opening we mostly hid in the back room drinking Harps and peeking through a cracked door at the "three" people that showed up. Usually there are a three hundred or more.
Roger and Frank rescheduled my opening for Oct 11, and again, two days before which America went to war in Afghanistan. A pattern you say? The show was up for two months, but people do not buy art when they are afraid of the future. Art is bought as an act of enthusiasm for life, it is a reaffirmation of living. Art is civilization's trilling. Hi-ho.