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Miracles, SixProjects@Suburban (June, 2005) Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is inhabited almost entirely by Scots and Irish, who live in paltry log houses. There are in the town four attourneys, two doctors, and not a priest of any persuasion. The place, I believe, will never be considerable - US Congressman Arthur Less, December 17, 1784 It was April 2005 and I was in an inventable mood. I despised my job at work and my tax refund hadn't arrived yet, that's when JB and SV invited me to join, Miracles. This was seen as a program for Space Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. At its center was going to be the reconstructed Miracles, a cultural space that resembled closely a blind pig in someone's Squirrel Hill living room.  Initially I was unclear about what my roll in the program would be as I didn't make like an artist. SV and JB didn't want me to participate as a curator either. They didn't want me to bring in artists to participate, I wasn't needed to design the show, or contribute an essay. Instead I was be