James Akers<p>I visited Jacob Fishman and the new Lightwriters public access neon studio in Chicago. I learned lots from his "Neon Engineers Handbook" and he has been one of my neon heros for years.</p><p>Of course, I was dazzled seeing all the Bruce Nauman pieces, patterns and rejects (Jacob is Nauman's main neon fabricator)- and I am a big Bruce Nauman fan. That copy of "mystic truths" has been all over the world and is the "living template" for the piece.</p><p>Jacob makes me wanna play more with radio.</p><p>I loved seeing the Bing neon happy sad outlets at Light Writers. It's so exciting that there is now a public access neon shop in Chicago - it's been needed for years with SAIC and UW students graduating and not having a place to work for years. I am gonna send some class proposals to Jacob and Zoell (his daughter) to return one day an teach a class :)</p><p>Next stop- Madison Wisconsin!</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/heros" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heros</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/brucenauman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brucenauman</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/chicago" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chicago</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/contemporaryart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contemporaryart</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/fabrication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fabrication</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/roadtrip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roadtrip</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/idols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>idols</span></a></p>