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Day 18 Friday June 21, 2005. -Bare Naked in Rosedale- “What are you doing tonight?”.
It was Drew Harris. (www.drewharris.com)
Drew Harris is another “work in progress”, in my growing body of incredible stories that have happened to friends of mine. I have known Drew for the past 10 years. Two of his
paintings hang in our house. One was painted for Nicol and me, in
exchange for some help we had given him on something. The other
one he painted specifically to commemorate the day Last year Drew moved to the historic St.Clair apartment where Glenn Gould lived and produced some of his best work until his death. He told me that he was planning his next “Exhibit” based on paintings produced in the space while listening to Gould’s music and interpreting it on canvas. The original name for the show was to be “TWENTY FINGERS”. I asked him again to let me document what it is like for a painter to go from concept (Blank Canvas) to completion (The Show). I wanted to call the film “THIRTY FINGERS”. He agreed. It started six months ago. Like most of my other works, it has been a wild roller coaster ride. Think Nick Nolte in “New York Stories”. I went to the party this evening because I knew that it would make for an interesting scene, after what had been happening since we started. His painting - an outtake from the renamed “Variations Series” - ended up raising $ 3,400.00 for SERVE CANADA (www.servecanada.org), which helps “at risk” kids who need support and opportunities to be part of something, in a safe environment that challenges them. The Barenaked Ladies auctioned off, in musical form no less and the highlight of the evening, a dinner for 10 people to be made by a world famous chef before one of the band's concerts. They raised $ 13,500.00 for it. It was a great event- over $100.000.00 was raised. I’ve always wanted to align my films with a good Cause, and I hope that this may be the right fit for the work I have done to date. Will see? Next: Cautious Man. |
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