Comings and Goings
Comings and Goings
Number One
Second Image
Third piece
Soon, the picture of Take Another Step will come together. Mark Carlson, Zach and I met with Lisa Ca lame Berg today to begin planning a poetry night for Mark’s show. Lisa will be gathering the poets to speak on October 15 in an event entitled Still Walking: poetry of tenacity. Stay tuned for more!
Local artist Mark Edwin Carlson is primarily a painter, but he always seeks to convey a sense of the greater narrative. A socially conscious mission that provides the foundation for each new body of work. In TAKE ANOTHER STEP, Carlson’s most recent installment. He chronicles his own experience of walking the Twin Cities Breast Cancer 3 Day in honor of his mother who is a proud breast cancer survivor. On his 72 hour journey, Carlson says that he witnessed, “people who were stunningly positive, and acts of gratitude from people I’d never met.” Each work in TAKE ANOTHER STEP also tells the story of the women that he trained and walked with. That is to say, it begins to tell their stories. As each is ripe with history, struggle, and eventual triumph.
