Concurrents: Changing Brains
I missed NeoCon in June, first time since 1988. It was difficult to break that streak because NeoCon has always been a pleasure for me, not a burden. For those 30-odd years of making the trek to Chicago in June, I was never staffing a showroom or a booth space. Instead, I spent the entire show seeing as much as I could see, and meeting up with so many prized colleagues that I might only encounter once per year. That made missing NeoCon 2024 a serious disappointment. However, I had a good reason. I had been invited to an arts conference for writers, painters, musicians, etc. in Postignano, Italy, a tiny borgo northeast of Rome in the mountainous countryside of Umbria. I would gather with an amazing array of gifted and warm-hearted attendees to nurture our creativity, absorb unsurpassed beauty, and consume languorous dinners prepared by a chef with four …
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