Four Imaginary Friends & One Enemy
Let’s create four imaginary friends and one imaginary enemy together.
These imaginary characters are actually — real.
Imagine, if you will, a Museum of Non-Visible Art, in which the works can be created only in the imagination of viewers. When you acquire a piece of Non-Visible Art, you get a certificate and a description of it. That description is how you create the piece in your own mind and in someone else’s. There is no physical version of the art.
As far as I know, I have the world’s largest collection of Non-Visible Art, acquired from Praxis. In my collection I have four imaginary friends and one imaginary enemy. Unlike the rest of the pieces in my collection, many of which are installed at Science House in Manhattan, these four friends and one enemy are mine to develop, design and create.
And that’s what I’m inviting all of you to do with me. You can comment on this post or send me your ideas directly so I can add them to the collective.
What makes an imaginary friend great? What kind of characteristics do the imaginary friends have? Who are they? Where do they live? Are they mundane or magical? What are their names? And what about the enemy? It can be anything. USE YOUR IMAGINATIONS! Write, draw, sculpt, create. Let your minds wander. And share the results with me so I can start compiling them.
And I also created a sculpture for the Non-Visible Art project. When I saw this on today of all days, I was emotional. Every year I create a new version of the Secret Garden, a botany experiment on the roof of Science House. When I realized that this might not be possible this year, I started to collect seeds that I can try and cultivate. Just today, I made some little terrariums and sowed a handful of seeds that look exactly like the ones described in my non-visible sculpture.
After all, art is about the glow of experience and emotion, just being alive in this dynamic world and universe. If any of you might feel comforted by my Fireflies tonight, whisper to them. I can share an infinite number of jars and still know that mine will always come back to me.
