As she sorted through her slides, Caydance recollected a morning spent several years ago in an upstairs room where the walls were lined with wooden storage boxes designed by George Maciunas. The room also included a table, a chair, a rug, and window-streamed Berkshire morning light.
On her mind was the accordion folded tape attached to the Fluxus 1 wooden box. Distributed in not-always-the-same multiples, this box had been collected, edited, and designed by Maciunas himself. Instead of pages, inside in bolted-together envelopes were graphic works, scores, and fragments made by artists: Ay-O, George Brecht, Alison Knowles, Ben Vautier, Yoko Ono, Jackson Mac Low, and many others. Dick Higgins, it was rumored, had been removed after an argument.
Jean
Brown's home in Tyringham, Massachusetts had a vibrant spare beauty in which the work of Fluxus artists integrated with the presence and furnishings of a lived life, as if it were a museum inhabited by Jean herself. Deeply knowledgeable. Hospitable, Unforgettable.