the Ha? project Hudson, Wisconsin USA

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Pleased to announce the first Ha? project was organized on USA soil (June 20-21), at the Heart of the River Art Opening in Hudson, Wisconsin.  Fourteen versions were created on Friday for display and silent auction on Saturday.  The People's Choice Award went to Sarah Stolzenburg, receiving many compliments throughout the event.  Thanks to the Heart of the River for inviting us to share the Ha? in the USA and continuing the movement to spread laughter and joy that comes from the arts. Learn more about the Ha? by liking our facebook page.

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The HA experiment's painting, if you are in it you are E, has inspired Filipino writer, Arkay Timonera.  His work was recently published in the book, Interstices.  The passage is a personal and verbatim recount of the artwork.  We are humbled by what we read and are pleased to share it! Create to Elevate!

From Interstices:

Some Notes on Painting

by 

Arkay Timonera

1. It is more or less happy.
2. I have never seen such color and such lack of color in the same place.
3. The skins of balloons must be very thin. Every gaze passes right through them.
4. The cut end of a woman's head reappears on the other side of the world.
5. The world was very likely a sphere once.  It has never been so flat or as whole.
6. There is a couch the shape of a horse.  The couple is riding it, banging drums.
7. Everyone is a stone. Except that penguin.
8. The ones who are not stones are entirely made of lines.  They contain the sky and each place they have ever walked in.
9. Someone is a yellow outline hugging himself.
10. Everyone keeps their mouth open for the balloons' dripping hues.
11. They are trying to catch colors on the tips of their absent tongues.
12. The sun is turning, the sun dangles on a string.
13. Either the balloons are bleeding or they are the ghosts of our blood.
14. Nobody keeps his eyes open.  Nobody has to.
15. Somebody doesn't mind having fallen into a pit.  He's spending the rest of his life singing about it.
16. The family that flies together fades together.
17. Those two faces are like twin tombs.
18. There is a house with no windows and no doors.  The man inside can see the rest of the universe.