The adopter, Karen Schechner, writes:

I love the way Tilt-A-Whirl's fuzziness plays with ambiguity and imagination. It's sort of simultaneously innocent and ominous, carnival-esque and industrial. I wanted it and then wanted it some more the longer I stared at it.

When I first saw it on FAAN, I immediately emailed Dave to make my plea, and hoped no other potential adopters would convince him that they were worthy of Tilt-A-Whirl. After Dave was kind enough to respond that day to tell me the good news that T-A-W was all mine, we found out we have some things in common -- both queer with queer sibs who we love and who love us back, making us all, in a way, one big happy fegelah family.

Dave is clearly sweet and generous and talented, and my girlfriend and I appreciate his letting us ride Tilt-A-Whirl off into a green and purple sunset. Viva la FAAN!

The artist, David Krueger, writes:

I posted this piece on christmas morning around 10, went out with my partner to see a movie and returned at 1pm to find an adoption request!

This piece was adopted by a lesbian couple whom I've yet to meet- because Tilt-A-Whirl was already commited to an exhibit of works curated from FAAN by Audra Wolowiec , and, is up at Austin Thomas' gallery Pocket Utopia thru January 27th.
(see http://www.pocketutopia.com/ or google it for more)

Was I slightly hesitant at first because of that old story about lesbians falling in love -and then promptly arriving with a U-haul? No!
Karen did write that both she and her partner love Tilt_A-Whirl and since I happen to have a lesbian sister whom I love as much as she loves me- I thought this was perfect.

I replied to Karen telling her the piece was hers and she was thrilled... I mentioned that I was a big homo -in so many words and asked permission to tell everyone that they're big lesbians. She said of course and added that she's got two fegelah brothers....) Funny stuff as introductions go and I look forward to meeting.

Karen is a writer and editor. She wrote a piece about FAAN for New York Press. I'm hoping she'll write a massive essay about Tilt-A-Whirl on a par with War and Peace just to show her appreciation- but I know we're all really busy too.

The finest part of all this was seeing Tilt_A_Whirl well hung and well lit at Pocket Utopia after all these years of being stored on a shelf. It was a great pleasure to share it and enjoy the other selections from FAAN, and, meet Adam Simon finally- who's terrific. Cheers!