In 1992 I got into the Banff Art Centre thanks to a bizarre coincidence. (This, after I had proposed doing a residency about Synchronicity, led the staff to maybe be a tiny bit scared of me.) On the first day of the session, we went around the circle & introduced ourselves & where we were from. There were artists from Brazil, England, Belgium, Serbia, 3 Canadians & 3 of us from the US. Turns out, the 3 of us from the US all grew up within 5 miles of each other, in the suburbs of St. Louis. None of us previously knew the others. (I looked at the staff members present, and they were staring at me. One of them said "Knock it off, Barry").
So, that was weird. 32 years later, I'm working on a video about all my Synchronicities, and I wanted to be sure I'm correct when I say "we all grew up within 5 miles of each other". So, I went online & found the St. Louis addresses for the other two artists from when we were all kids (none of us still live there.) I located us all on a map of St. Louis as accurately as I could. (It turned out to be 7.4 miles apart).
The morning after I had laid it all out, I woke up with an idea in my head: "Overlay the map with the Polaroid from that day." The result is what you see here. (Yes, that's me - Barry ("B"), and the other two names do indeed start with a "C" and a "D".)
These dots that I located from our childhood addresses lined up PRECISELY on our noses, and yes — in the right order — on a photograph from 33 years ago.
I’m trying to figure out what to do with this. Any thoughts?
