Over this past year, I participated in the latest iteration of TELEPHONE. This is a game played by artists worldwide that works like the children’s game of the same name. A message is passed from person to person and changes and evolves as it is passed. In this case, we pass a secret message from art form to art form, so a message could become poetry and then painting and then music and then film, throughout all possible forms of art.

This is the third game of TELEPHONE. The first game, was published in 2015 and consisted of 315 artists and can be found HERE. That first game was featured in The New York Times and you can read that article HERE.
The second game of TELEPHONE was played during the pandemic and published in 2021. It consisted of work by 795 artists and can be found HERE.
I also took part in that second game, and my entry https://phonebook.gallery/artists/enda-odonoghue from that round was a response to a piece of music from a composer based in New Orleans.

For this most recent game of Telephone, I was given a poem to respond to, entitled “Hawk in the Shadow of a Sycamore”. In response to the ideas in the poem I made a painting of ivy on a graffiti-covered wall by the river where I walk by daily. I then brought that painting back to the wall by the river, hung it there by the ivy, rephotographed it and left the painting there, for someone to find. It stayed there for a few days, unnoticed. Then it vanished… I thought maybe it ended up in the river or something like that….

Weeks later, I received an email and a photo from someone who signed themselves simply as M. They found the painting and gave it a new home.
https://telephonegame.art/artists/enda-odonoghue