The interview with James Leonard James Leonard will be performing WARBONDS, one time only,on Friday, September 12 at 7:30 pm.Free admission. Tell us about "Fighting Forces" and how it led to the "Warbonds" performance? Fighting Forces is a large scale installation piece that requires 100,000 mouse-eared 4" toy soldiers. In the completed work, these soldiers will be arranged in a variety 12' x 12' formations, laid out side by side allowing audience members to compare and contrast the narratives implicit in each different pattern. For example, there are very different implications in a dense 12' x 12' patch of toy soldiers all facing the same direction versus another arrangement where one half the field faces the other. Beyond these obvious arrangements, there remains a significant number of other possible formations that convey more complex and sometimes ridiculous narratives. I see these explorations into narrative defined by flow as something akin to what Josef Albers accomplished with his square paintings and color theory: revealing patterns of immediate, implicit information rooted in the aesthetics of the work. How did this project lead to the Warbonds Project as a whole and the Warbonds Performance in particular? Let me tell you: 100,000 [...]