Adriane Shown

The tag line tor the play, Destination, which I’m currently in rehearsals… is ‘sometimes you have to lose your way to find your way’ 🚙 💨 💨 sometimes I wonder where that dark haired gal might have ended up had I not taken -this- path. Still pulling pints & pouring shots for DC locals? A cigarette dangling, making myself another iced coffee? 🚬 That was nearly half a lifetime ago, after a few years as a slam poet, when I did my first solo performance, Fire & Ash (📸 by Geoff Johnson for my fifth chapbook which was the script for the show) I had filmed my mother doing a few straight poetry readings & played those videos on a TV in the living room stage set for that show. She said, ‘I get to play Mommy in the Box’ (though I had always just called her by her name…it’s complicated) After a few attempts, this silver-fox quit smoking in 2005. Sugar is the last thing on the done-with-it list. Oof. 💜🗝

Colour coordinated with some outdoor instillation art. This work is meant to have direct interaction. Unless you are invited to do so, climbing art is not okay 🎠 But as a kid & teen in NYC & DC, there were plenty of opps to climb on huge bronzes of lions, horses, dinos (& historical figures) I waded through fountains, water features, reflecting pools. What? I was a latch key kid…& safety of such kids, or art work, was not a societal priority back then. Okay, maybe I was still scaling some buildings, wandering through abandoned warehouses & culverts well into my 20s. Oh the rooftops, the air shafts & rusted fire escapes! Guh. I’m not so keen on heights now as a result 🌱 I always stayed on the path in the Botanical Garden though, I didn’t want to kill a snail or beetle 💜🗝