Tony Orrico
Textile: Remembering Others, 2020
Performance and graphite on paper
5 x 7 inches (12.7 x 17.78 cm)
Unique, in a special edition series of 50 drawings

Tony Orrico will perform a unique graphite drawing for you, based on your own performative participation — we believe that we can foster connection even when we cannot gather together.

Artist’s Instructions
1. Lie on your back and calm your thoughts.
2. Connect to what is felt in your body.
3. Begin to scan slowly from head to toe navigating the feeling of all of the contours of your body.
4. Allow your mind to begin to think fluidly through stories and associations- past, present, and future.
5. Collect 7 memories like eggs in a basket. Notice where you are on the body when a memory arises. When a full story is remembered, deduce it down to a word, pair of words, or a very short phrase. While gathering several stories, you may recognize when one of them is lost again, and if not recovered, gather a new one in its place. Don’t be precious.
6. Take your time. Your performance is finished when you have 7 and can recite them forward and backward.
7.  Write them down and email them to info@signsandsymbols.art and the artist will sew your unique, hand written tessellation of these memories, a virtual splice of a mental connectome carried in your body.

Example list:
SELF THREAT
BLUEBERRY BOUNTY
REVOLT AGAINST THE CITY
SOCIAL DISTANCE
FEED ME MY LINES
FEELS LIKE NOT FALLING
SHOW YOURSELF

This participatory performative drawing is one of our special initiatives that will allow us to support our program and our artists who are trying to continue creating work during this turbulent time.

This work is available for pickup at the gallery or domestic shipping for $35; the gallery is not liable for third party shippers. For international shipping, please inquire. All sales are final.