Juxtapose -1, arriving in Aarhus
The trip to Aarhus and participating in Juxtapose has new significance. Some … many … people are denied opportunity. Taking part in Juxtapose is an amazing opportunity and I am fortunate that I am able to do it. And now I do it knowing that someone who was, due to no fault of their own, unable to be who they could have been very much wanted me to be here doing this.
Things are simultaneously familiar and new – my first time working with so many artists at the same time, my first time presenting Glitter Ball at an event. It is, especially under the circumstances, so very comforting to be among people who know, love, and care for me – not just the artists that I have invited, but also Pam and Cecilie who I have gotten to know over the past four or five years through the relationship between Supermarket and Juxtapose. I know that over the coming week I am going to meet more wonderfully caring, passionate, creative, complex soles – people with whom I felt an immediate and genuine connection when our paths crossed at other fairs.
I really could not be in a better place right now. How I could not have imagined that those words would come forth. Strange as it seems to me there is lightness and there is brilliance. And I know who I have to thank for that, and with all my heart I thank them.
