I love a grant.  Who doesn’t?

I especially love the new and improved MICRO Grant.  It’s everywhere.  It feeds on my pocket.  It says, eat me.  Eat me now.  Make me bigger.  Make my neighborhood, restaurant, apartment, mural, and everything else that doesn’t need a once in a life time but twenty times applied for macarthur foundation back drop … it just says, I’m enough.  A small microcosm of proof that your space can feed off itself one day at a time.

Here in Detroit, I see small reflections of the spaces I’ve left behind in Seattle.  I email Summer that there are so many things she has GOT to look at.  “If only you were here with me,” I say.  We could hit up all the independent anarchist small press bookstores or just start one of our own. Because there have got to be some of those too.  In a space so empty, there is room for just about everything.

At the Lager House on Michigan Avenue.  PJ lights up on the subject of space. We talk about real estate, about the price of a quality home.  He describes how long a man holds on to his lot and overcoming the resistance to sell.  People hold out for the highest bidder.  Hold out for generations.  And still there is no sale.  I am looking at a website on how to purchase one inch of real estate in Detroit, not too long of a walk from this bar stoop and my vanilla porter and PJ’s enthusiastic declarations of a city he loves.  Loveland, owned and founded by Mary and Jerry, provides Micro real estate ventures – one inch for one dollar – here in detroit for anyone.  That’s right.  I too can be a part of the space.

What is so attractive about the Micro scale?  The residency, the land.  Providing opportunity to identify with ourselves and our work in spaces we hold dear or do not know at all … with just a few words of advice.  Is it the idea that I am a part of something and that something, no matter how small, is progress toward change?

In other news, we are performing tonight. Follow our live feed of locations on Facebook and Tweeter.  As it so happens, Lager House is most definitely a hub on the map for projection art.  So we’ll see you here or online … 10pm … rock!