Mistakes make things more interesting

01 Dec Mistakes make things more interesting

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Columbus and Broadway..outside… The unveiling of Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn’sÂ “The Language of Birds”

My son Sebastian asleep in his car seat with wheels.Â Each piece of sculpture way up over head covered with black cloth- individually wrapped. Â The Marching band appears – my son wakes up just as one of the black clothes gets stuck on a sculpture.Â Really stuck.Â The audience waits in anticipation.Â

Brian Goggin, artist and obvious rock climber, scales a two-story ladder to remove the black cloth and slides down.Â Â TheÂ ladder is held byÂ theÂ crowd. It appears dangerous.Â It is very dramatic.

Â The crowd cheers.Â My son starts screaming “that is my daddy’s ladder.. that is my daddy’s ladder..”Â (It was, weird how kids know these things- it was.)

The remaining cloths are removed by some of the The Extra Action Marching BandÂ members… in matching outfits.

My son starts yelling, “Momma… those girls don’t have any clothes on!!!”

It is hard to explain to a three year old thongs with bead ‘skirts’… I did a fair job answer the question “why“

http://www.metaphorm.org/pages/portfolio/LanguageBirds.html

The point of this post:Â when things don’t go the way we planned when presenting GO WITH IT.Â The drama of the unveiling made the audience CHEER.Â Several people behind me wondered if it was all a part of the performance.Â

Nice.

Mistakes make things more interesting

01 Dec Mistakes make things more interesting

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