In the Spring of 2009 a British filmmaker asked me to drive him around the Midwest. Brock Dundee was shooting a movie about a famous sculpter’s statues and the artist’s reaction to seeing them long after their completion. Barry didn’t have long to live.
Brock and I were friends from the 90s.
“I don’t drive and you’d be the perfect guide to America.”
I agreed to the road trip.
It was spring in the Fly-over; the Mississippi in flood, St. Louis in ruins, Indian mounds, cheap hotels, long-lost friends, dirt roads, no highways, and always the destination of seeing another Hare statue.
We drove 3000 miles in seven days to see five bronze hares.
Before this trip I ceased to see things. I only looked at them.
Brock taught me to see again as did his movie.
His gift was a powerful thing.
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