Where are we? In a series of which we do not know the extremes.
-Emerson

Each thing that exists is an analogue for all that exists; thus being alway
seems to us separate and interconnected at the same time.
-Goethe

The second summer of the Mind's Eye residency at the Schoolhouse Center both echoes and adjusts the premise of a concentric or self-propagating series. A group of seven participants will create an interlocking, episodic, season-long salon, with each presenting not his or her own work but that of another-each is invited to turn outward and to choose a second artist or group of artists who will come and make an event in Provincetown. In this way, performances, concerts, readings, and exhibitions will proliferate, each contextualized by the interests of the instigating curator, but realized by the presence of the guest. In practice, then, the season's "visiting artist" is not an individual, but a kaleidoscopic figure shaped by
elastic accidents, old friendships, and active appreciations-the interconnections that generate what's known as inspiration.

This summer's focus in the mirror of the Mind's Eye might be thought of as spectacle itself-the process of looking, the panorama that rushes up to fill our view but changes all around us, in response, as we pass through. Looker and looked-at swap positions; reveal themselves as halves of a secret whole; come into being in the action of their opposites. Thus any single point contains them all, and the part we don't know is as important as-or more important than-the parts we've played for ages and have down pat. Offering correspondence without forcing duplication, the analogue carves out a slice of space where surprising instances, unknown extremes, can flow in close and unfold themselves in the midst of familiar being. Reading this right now, you are inside that slice already. But it extends-

Come see.

-Frances Richard

Mind's Eye Schedule of Events