Friday, March 7, 2008
Scene & Herd How John Bayne copes
Posted by Andisheh Nouraee on Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:37 PM
JOHN BAYNE AT P’CHEEN: With Fibonacci cope
A list of the things John Bayne does with his time would fill this page. The short list: He’s a mathematician by trade, a scholar of Southern literature, a collector of books (he gave the GSU library’s its Eudora Welty collection), a raconteur, and as of last night, a professional fashion designer.
Two years ago, he needed new curtains for his windows. Instead of buying some, he borrowed a neighbor's sewing machine and taught himself to sew. Within days, his curtains were up, but he kept sewing, turning his attention to, of all things, Episcopal vestments called copes. Some of John’s copes feature traditional Episcopal iconography. Others feature visual depictions of mathematical concepts like the Pythagorean theorem and the Fibonacci sequence. An exhibition of John’s copes opened at P’cheen in Old Fourth Ward last night.
The artist was on hand, pouring champagne for visitors and explaining each piece’s meaning and inspiration. He expects the show to remain up for about one month, after which he will turn his attention to another project – the laying of an obelisk on the recently discovered grave of obscure Southern author George Washington Harris in Trenton, Ga. Harris died in 1869.
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