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GERALDINE
by Kat Georges
I saw her at a barbeque out in Sonoma.
It was raining, but we still stood outside,
under a giant oak tree that deflected some of the drops.
Her words like raindrops
a steady patter
of unleashed womanhood
strong sentiments
she sang about art
"This guy who lives here, Robin,
he paints, he asks me what I think
of his work, and I have to tell him,
‘Man, it’s not happening anymore—
you paint bouquets of flowers,
and not very unusual flowers.
It’s not relevant.’”
She tells me that she
exhibited her photographs
in a car wash in L.A., without
the owner’s permission,
and that after two days,
more than half the photographs
had been stolen.
“It was great! People who
would never go into a gallery
were seeing art on the wall of a car wash
and they took it. Art for the People!”
She was married to a guy who owned
a gallery with two other people.
“I keep trying to tell them that
the things they are exhibitng are
no longer relevent, that they need
to understand what art for the People
is about—but they won’t listen to me
because I am much younger than them
and they think ‘What do I know?’”
She sipped a glass of wine.
”I mean, if there is no relevence to
modern society, if you are locked up
in the style and look of the past, then
you are nothing but retread, you are
not paving any new ground, you are
not contributing to culture, only (possibly)
your pocketbook!!!
She told me later that she had taken 2 hits of acid
An hour before the party.
It wasn’t an apology.
I don’t even think it was
Relevant.
Kathi Georges
8-3-93