Tim Mason (Rooms and Riches)

Please meet Timothy Mason. There is probably no one more consequential in terms of my awakening artist’s mind in the 1990s. There was no early room in which I discovered or started to practice art that was not either produced by Tim or for which he was not in some way materially responsible. Nothing that followed would have played out the same way. This one is a catch from the deeper waters, the personal depths. We’re swimming with the tides of the cosmos in this one: the story of a person who created a network of stages and performance venues across geography and time, bringing luminaries and future luminaries together in places unlikely or spaces imperiled — all the while practicing his own craft as a poet and performer striving to channel voices and experience both inside and outside the human condition.