Paraploo
The Reach(ing) is the Chime
Beginning with Forgiveness — of the maker's work or play, of a very bad day ... All blame is set down at each next sacred passage ... What's offered is Mercy or belief that an incomplete thing still deserves a hand ... We prefer to support rather than too soon go to criticizing ... Close to every Paraploo piece and performance was created while proving worth — and proof from required effort ... We always wish to help in some way or another; reaching toward problems with sleeves rolled up so to speak ... All of it done with a loose and friendly notion of Unity in mind — cooperation between writing and drawing ... maker and who enters ... Effort put toward common ... We the People ... sized down to a front porch and fresh squeezed glass of timeless lemonade-ah ... What this whole practice hopes to sound like is absolute Harmony ( with a capital H ) and peace ... Shared responsibility to be a little kinder than each day demands of us
Built in the open.
Brian William Otto, also known as Reach Chimes — writer and multidisciplinary artist in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Born 1959. His work and play move in the register of Wonderful Garbage + occasionally Noir Chanson. Decades of living and arriving at proof ... gathered here under the name and word mark Paraploo.
