this is a detail of a piece i made that told the story of why i came to new york. should i now make the piece about why i'm leaving this city that i adore and have adopted as my home?

i'm struggling so much with this but i also know it's time, like the byrd's song song says, 'to everything  there is a season and a time to every purpose, under heaven'

this is the complete piece, since i made it on a wall and even though i managed to recover parts of it (with the help of construction workers at the museum where it exhibited) i will not be able to take it with me. like so many other things... (but i'm happy to say that the piece was bought by a french collector and i made a copy for him on canvas, so in many ways, the piece lives and breaths in paris...)

i couldn't make it to the show but here are some photos of it, my work was displayed the wrong way but that's part of the game sometimes.

i'm happy to have finished this piece in somewhat difficult personal circumstances. i did not end up using a mousetrap which was my initial idea but it works with the razor blade and the fly (plus the wound). i will definitely try using a mousetrap in a box soon though.

now to take it to its final destination: the exhibition space! the show opens this sunday, the info is in the link in my previous post.

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this is the box cover, with a ghostly image of a transit cone on red clouds...

i'm gluing studs to the inside borders of the box and having a nightmare experience with the glue gun as i do so (never get your hair close to one!)

the studs have to be first flattened and then glued, have lots of finger burns, i need tweezers...

here's some info for the show i will be in as part of arts in bushwick beta spaces

http://artsinbushwick.org/beta2010/showdirectory/boxed-in-and-out/

i'm still working on the piece, it's coming out nicely, my box is titled 'new york retablo', i will post images soon.