Here’s probably the best anecdote about the Lost Sound Search Engine from its showing in Kansas last weekend.
A family from the Lakota tribe (original settlers of the Great Plains) stopped by to see the search engine. The machine found a clip of an interview with John Lennon and the young boy asked his father who was talking. The dad explained how Lennon was a singer who believed in peace and love but he’s no longer with us now. The next day the family stopped by again because he said his son asked him if they could go back and see, “the machine about peace and love.”
I’m very content thinking that kid knows my sculpture as “The Machine About Peace and Love.”
Also while in Kansas I ran into an artist who’s work I’ve appreciated for a few years now, Randy Regier. He was showing NuPenny's Last Stand at the same festival my machine was at. NuPenny is a store full of amazing toys that he’s built. You can’t get inside, they’re just out of reach and there’s no one there to field questions about the shop. It was GREAT. I think if you like my work you’ll also really like his so check it out when you have time.
On the final day of the festival Randy gave me this nose cone he had stored away in his Wichita studio. Yes, I know, this thing is amazing. I watched it in my rearview mirror gently rocking back and forth the entire 16 hour drive home.
