What this is all about… or “How you do what you do is what you do.”

So, this is the beginning of a story, primarily about Andrew Oesch and a bus.

Andrew is going to live, travel, and work in the bus. He is seeking out community art centers, collectives of artists, collections of educators, and venues of cultural production in order to grow both his heart and his practice as an Artist Educator.

Currently, as of September 2009, the plans are pretty loose. Andrew, the person who is writing this, who is gonna change to writing in the first person in order to succinctly say what his/my general directional query is at the moment. . . It comes from a mantra that I think of when entering into a new learning environment-

The Plan: I don’t know. I don’t know what I am doing. Do you? I don’t know what is going to happen… do you? well, trust me… What we are gonna do is going to be awesome.

While this little statement functions primarily from a place of not knowing, it doesn’t lack intentions and a set of hopes. As was said before I am looking to travel to a certain type of place. I am looking for more language to describe my hybrid practices and professions. Specifically I am interested in talking more about not knowing and how we know to not know and know when we are not knowing. . . yes it is appropriate to laugh because it is kinda ridiculous.

The immediate plans are to leave my current/former home in Providence on October 5th/6th-ish and head to Virgin, Utah. I am going to work for a friend who has a varied Architectural Practice, in exchange for access to his shop in order to build out the bus as a mobile printing studio and general workshop. i am going to re-visit my interests in architecture and work on my new home. The trip will involve visiting many friends and most of my family. The trip will also involve a Puppetry and Story Telling tour of approximately 11 days. When I arrive in Utah I plan on refining my thoughts about what the longer tour is going to look like, with a grander departure for points unknown sometime in November/December.

This endeavor is part about condensing and part about distillation. I am moving into an incredibly finite amount of space and I am a collector of sorts{read- packrat}. I am moving into a school bus, and I can bring along a lot of belongings. . . but I am hoping to shed off some clutter and find out what remains. In my travels I am seeking out what is essential about other places and asking about what is essential in me. By traveling I am seeking to put myself in situations where I am articulating my intentions and continually re-articulating them as they evolve and as the contexts shift. I imagine that this website will be re-vamped a couple of times in the near future.

Okay, maybe I am not quite succint or that clear. . . yet, but here we go. . .