Ketchup and Blog

Well, doesn’t that sound tasty. I’ve got a lot of pictures, and you guys are probably just going to have to bear with me as I don’t think one day will be enough to get them all up. As you should know if you’ve been a regular visitor, Saturday was Triangle’s Open Studios, which was an extremely well-attended event, partly due to coinciding with the Dumbo Arts Festival Weekend. I would like to thank my friends from college who showed up, as well as my friend Felicia from high school in VA, who brought her family and a friend. It is interesting for me to hear my friends’ opinions, which are unsnobbified by their respective professions outside the Art-World. The resounding favourite of the lay-peoples was Rodrigo Bruna, and his toast-image (which turns out to be a copy of the supposed first photograph ever taken- burned onto a metal plate). People actually were eating the popcorn that spewed out of Richie Budd’s sculpture and most of us got a lil tipsy afterwards so I think it was a great success. Today Ben (the other studio-tech, whose skills, enthusiasm and patience have made him the ideal work-mate), David (the “Hands” on the Triangle Board), and I have been disassembling everything in a state of mild depression. This week I would like to thank the SCAD Financial Aid department for finally getting me my money, the State of Georgia for agreeing that my truck (still in GA) IS actually road-worthy, and Allison Wiese (Triangle artist) for pointing out that you are not technically supposed to put two spaces after a period (note to sefl: am stuck in my ways, though I realize I could probably save about 5 minutes a year just on this blog- if I hadn’t had complaints already, I might just leave punctuation out completely). Please stay posted for pics from Poogy Bjerklie’s exhibition at the Phatory, the Karen Wilkin-curated Phong Bui exhibition, and some other stuff I’ll figure out later. Please don’t be shy, leave me some comments! Also!!!: potential visitors please be aware that EFA’s open studios will be open Thurs, Sat, Sun, but I will probably not be taking part because of a shady technical problem involving membership- so look forward to November when I will have my “solo show” and if you aren’t familiar with Zeno’s paradox or Aasimov’s “The Last Question” you have time to marinate on that now.