Dispatch from Election Night: David Ford’s “I Love This Country” Exhibit at Mercy Seat

Click on photo for naughty naughty slide show by Michael Forester.

Guess what? You went to the wrong party.

Indeed, while you were at home glued to the couch or out with your Young Republican friends, weeping in a sports bar, YJ’s Snack Bar owner and adventurous 18th Street artist David Ford was presiding over a crew of strippers, freaks, bikers and musicians at a living art installation called “I Love This Country.” Ford’s known for setting up things like this — symbolic eye-candy feasts of motion, color, sound and absurdity. He’s taken his at to New York and locally has been responsible for some crazy goings-on around the Crossroads. Last night, he took over Mercy Seat Tattoo at 16th and Grand.