[Update] The show was lovely, but it’s over now. I feel lucky that we had the opportunity to have everyone’s stuff up all at once in the same space. Lot’s of people commented that we’re a “really creative family.” I guess we are, but I never thought it was unusual. I just kind of assumed everybody did creative stuff. Everyone wears their own blinders, I guess.

I showed three video pieces. “Three Nights” and “Fortnight” are from my time-lapse photography exploration of sleeping patterns. “You” is a brand-new work (just finished it Sunday morning before the studio opened) which uses a live video camera and monitor at the bottom of a chin-high black paper tube. It was so much fun to watch people’s reactions as they looked in to see themselves in the reverse angle, peeking over the wall, Kilroy-style. There was much giggling. I call it a success.

It was sad to take all the stuff down Friday night. Big thanks to my cousin DJ (aka Dorothy Frey) for having us.

From DJ’s promo mailing:

Art Sunday October 2, 12 – 5
First Friday October 7, 5 - 9

Dorothy Frey Angela Shope
drawings and paintings paintings and porcelain vessels

Guests:
Jim L. Bowman
photography-digital macro panoramics
Linda Bowman
ceramics
Tim Bowman
video
Amy Miller
sculpture (to be worn)
Kent Miller
photography

Keppel Building
323/329 North Queen Street
Second Floor
Lancaster, PA 17603

This month, Dorothy Frey and Angela Shope invite Jim L. Bowman, Linda Bowman, Tim Bowman, Amy Miller and Kent Miller to TWO Art events in Downtown Lancaster:

Art Sunday, October 2, 12 – 5 pm
First Friday, October 7, 5 – 9 pm

Dorothy Frey works directly from observation. Her paintings of trees and fields are like mementoes from daily life: experiences, places, times, ideas, and personalities deliberated through form and space found in nature.

Angela Shope is a full-time artist working in porcelain, oils and watercolors. She draws from many influences, from nature to fashion to cell structures. Her whimsical work is a celebration of color and self-expression.

October’s Visiting Artists: Relatives of Dorothy Frey, the Bowman family have a wide range of talents that they bring to the studio this month: Photography, Video, Digital Macro Panoramics, Ceramics, Jewelry, and Sculpture.

UPDATE 14-09-2005: No More You is now also available through the iTunes Music Store!

Advent Sleep “No More You” EP. Out on Verboten Digital. Purchase your copy at CDBaby.com. More info at adventsleep.com.

October, 2004
1080HD, 1min., 27sec.

FORTNIGHT is one work from a series investigating the hidden ballet that occurs during slumber.

Currently formatted as a single channel, high definition piece, it is also intended that FORTNIGHT be shown as a 14-channel piece in standard definition.

Today, a few minutes after noon and after months of development (performed mainly in fits and starts) the Notecards section of the Bowman Images website went live!

Finally, we’re finished. Now go buy some cards &mdash they’re really nice!

In 1995 I spent nine days being a rock star. The management company for our band, Psychomagnet, brought us from Pennsylvania to the Big Apple to work with a Real New York Producer (a friend of the singer’s who, it would appear, has done very nicely for himself) to record an album. We would scrape ourselves off the floor of our manager’s Jersey City condo every morning, hop on a bus, creep through the Lincoln tunnel, then walk to the studio. We were under no circumstances to arrive before the ungodly hour of noon. But this story is not about Rock & Roll.

Every morning, the walk from Port Authority to the studio would take us right by the Empire State building. One morning we left a little early and tacked on an 86 floor detour.

I still remember quite clearly standing on that windy observation deck, feeling scarily exposed, even though I was safely cradled by those tall, curving safety bars. I remember looking through those bars out across the cityscape, looking out at all that vast city way out and way down there, and the most dramatic thing I could see was the pigeons, just two feet away from me, on the other side of the bars, standing fearlessly right on the edge and looking back at me. I could swear they were wondering just what the fuck I was doing in a cage.

I remember taking photographs of these heroic birds through the bars, feeling very strongly the lack of wings which kept me in my cage.

I made the photographs, but I could never seem to lay my hands on them. My memory of taking them was so clear, but I could never find the film — the proof. Until now. Last week I processed some random, unmarked film I’ve had laying around for ever. At the end of the process I pulled the film out of the fixer and — POW! There they were — my empire heroes. Eight years later, the shots are just as good as I remembered. (If I may be so bold.) Unable to keep them to myself, I now present them to you. Enjoy.