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5 October 2004. A couple of weeks ago, through the offices of my good Miami friend Carlos Luis, I got invited to do a presentation at the Miami Art Museum in conjunction with an illumagery show called "Beyond Geometry." It was out of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art which had included a concrete poetry section that the Miami museum hadn't room for, so I guess I'm sort of a way of making up for that. My audience will consist, in the main, of schoolteachers, so one of my assignments is to give them an activity to do and then take back for use in their classes. I had several ideas. The best, I think, was to have the teachers make geometry based collages and divide them by randomly distributed verbal images. When I e.mailed my ideas the Cheryl Hartup, who's running things, I didn't hear back for over a week. Neurotic as I am in such circumstances, I worried that they would no longer want me to come. Well, yesterday, she e.mailed me that the people at her place were enthusiastic about my ideas, and that everything was going forward for the presentation. (I'll actually be paid--and get two free days in a hotel!)
The presiding (but not ruling, if you know the difference) part of my brain is telling me this is a very good thing, a chance to showcase my mathematical work and the work of those in my crowd, but whatever part of me I need to get the presentation planned and my text for it written is still who knows where, if still anywhere. I have to get going, anyway. So, the plan is to use blog entries to get the text of my presentation under way. Starting not with today's, natch, but tomorrow's.
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