Deaf, Dumb & Blind @ The Babylon Gallery

I need to see more Art. Art being made. Art that makes you laugh. Art that is not so easily consumed. Art that hits you over the head. I want to bath in it and cover my walls, floors, and ceilings with it.

The current exhibition at the Babylon could keep me busy until next year. Some real good stuff here. The kicker was that a kid that used to be a camper of mine, when I was a Camp Counselor at Hidden Pines Ranch, is now one of the best Graf Artists in town and he’s now taking some of his stuff off the street and into the Galleries. Or does that happen the other way, I forget. When I first met Justin, he was a little suburban kid from Stillwater that ran around with a Florida Marlins Baseball hat on and asked me questions about Lollapalooza and his favorite band “Primus”. I can’t remember if Justin was older than the rest of the campers or whether he was just very advanced and liked hanging with the adults more than the other kids but he was on another level.

It wasn’t until a couple years ago, when I was working on the filming of Minneapolis Massive, that I ran into a 17 year old Justin again. He had left Stillwater far behind and was living for Graffiti and travel and Artistic elevation. It was great to see how much the Primus kid had developed. I guess this is what community and roots feels like. Feels good.

Everyone needs to buy more Art. Support local (and living) artists!