REMEMBEREMBRANDT @ Amos Eno - August 30 - September 24, 2005

From letter dated Sept. 2005 after the Rememberembrandt show opened at Amos Eno Gallery at 530 W. 24th St. NYC:

The reception was delightful. The biggest hit of the evening was when the lady who fabricated the felt hat with ostrich feather showed up with some of her Harlem Hat Ladies. All the downtown people took a big step backwards not knowing what was happening until I introduced her and thanked her for her contribution to the show. (She was paid a handsome fee for the fabrication.) I'm glad now that I endured the search for the felt hat. It brought, by virtue of its three-dimensional existence, the conceptualization of the Rememberembrandt into a commonplace of agreement. Even though the viewer thought it was interesting but just could not understand what was going on, because it wasn't displayed like a comic book with balloon captions, the Arrogance of the Felt Hat w/Plumed Feather (Jean Genet's description) created a common ground for communication.