An Archive of the Eclectic Interests of an Autodidact
Our very last one, our sweet baby Jackson just passed.
The silence in the house is so loud. We both feel that we will be with all of them again. This little film was my way of dealing with all the lost. I hope it might help others who have lost their pets.
LGBTQIA Pride 2022 – We Will Never Go Back
My husband Andrew Reach and I are together for 40+ years. I’m now 70 years old finally free to be myself. I grew up in the 1950’s and was called a sissy before I even knew what a sissy meant. In commemoration of Gay Pride Month, especially in these difficult times, I put this video together to inspire young generation to soldier on in our continuing quest for equality.
Bruce Baumwoll & Andrew Reach 1991 at rally at the California State Capitol Building in Sacramento in protest of Governer Pete Wilson’s veto of Bill AB101 Gay Rights Legislation.
Bruce Baumwoll & Andrew Reach 1981
We lived our life openly from the moment we met.
Hear Desi Arnaz perform his original song Babalu with his orchestra.
Click here to see my “I Love Lucy – The Ricardo’s & The Mertz’s” Photo Gallery
Click here to see my “I Love Lucy – The Ricardo’s & The Mertz’s” Photo Gallery
Amazing new #WIP (work in progress) by Andrew Reach for the Archives’ upcoming “W/O Limits: Art, Chronic Illness, & Disability” exhibition. Creating using Reach’s formidable #design skills, the sculpture will come to life using #3D printing technology. Best yet? It’s made to be touched by visitors, including those with visual impairments. The show opens #September 22nd!https://www.artistsarchives.org/event/w-o-limits/https://andrewreach.com/
# In progress – 3d printed sculpture
Visualization in Blender
I’m honored to be one of several artists to be in the upcoming show in December “W/O Limits: Art, Chronic Illness, & Disability” exhibition curated by Megan Alves and Mindy Tousley of the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. The Artists Archives has been awarded a grant from the Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities where the organization will be able to incorporate strategies to increase accessibility with among others the use of braille and a 3d printed tactile sculpture for the visually impaired.
Megan asked if I would be interested in doing this for the exhibition and I accepted, excited with the anticipation of revisiting shifting into 3 dimensions and also working again with Think[Box] at Case Western Reserve University. In progress is a 3d Hash symbol with elements that make it accessible to the visually impaired. A modular system of 80 individually printed blocks connected together alternating between hash symbols in negative relief and positive relief form a bold singular Hash symbol. Primary colors and black and white provide bold contrast between the parts. The deep cuts into each block project shadows making it both tactile and with a sharply delineated pattern.
As an art object unto itself, the hash symbol with its use in hash-tagging represents our modern times; good and bad; where data is turned into meta-data; where information is categorized and made searchable; where so many find their voices amongst the billions of souls vying to be seen and heard; to share beauty, happiness, injustices, sadness…everything, while other voices use the hashtag to tear down multi-culturalism.