Dakota Lacuna, Blues for John Lennon

December 1980

Franklin Furnace: New York City

Marquee signs, polaroid images

In the fall of 1980 I was getting ready for a one man show at Franklyn Furnace in TriBeca. This was very exciting as FF was an artist curated gallery/space. I planned to have a two sided, illuminated trailer sign in the gallery and another sign outside on the sidewalk. This would allow the presentation of four stanzas of a poem I was writing, and another four stanzas, every day of the show. Each day I would photograph the four stanzas with a polaroid and tape the polaroids on a wall of the gallery. A viewer could see the daily accrual until the work was complete. I called the project Plexiglyph Roost. When the horrible news of John Lennon’s murder exploded I tore up the initial poem and wrote Dakota Lacuna, Blues for John Lennon and installed that for the exhibition.