History

There is just so much to the history and the evolution of this project that it can be difficult to summarize in any one context. I'm asking myself now, what is the most easily digestible aspect of the history of Freespace that we can begin feeding to the general public while maintaining the essence? As an artists collective for sure... maybe just that, as a simple frame for this to start.

Personally, I met Greg in the lower east side NY as Greg Shephard the film maker, who had just misplaced his camera with some very meaningful material on it.I calmed him, told him if he retraced his steps then he would find it, and he did. The rest is history - There is an incredible series of serendipitous and synchronistic events that followed and continue to surprise me every day. This is the effect that Greg has on the artists he meets along the way. By being so open with his own free space and available to others who respond, he opens the doors within us to explore our our own free space. It seems to me that Greg's greatest joy is watching where we go from there.In this way he has flitted from artist to artist like a bee pollinating flowers and over time there has developed this hive, which draws those who also feel that amazing, harmonic vibration...

To get more linear -- Greg had a dream when he was 10 years old about making a map to objective time. Upon having a deja vu moment when looking at a photograph many years later, he remembered the dream, along with a very clear purpose. While that purpose includes the formation of this collective, it is in reality a public performance piece that has already been taking place for as long as Greg has been sharing his dream and concept of freespace with others.

(Tess Wonson)