Now I understand over three weeks of out of town causes a bit of a time lag and/or culture shock. It is taking time for me to get back to my own life; my brain takes time to get back to where I am.
This evening, I had a group show opening for an exhibition called Metro Poles at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Several groups of artists work on their own art at the gallery over the next two months. Every week a different artist takes over and work on a new work from the previous work exhibited at the gallery.
It looked like an artists' party with a reunion kind of feeling. I enjoyed it a lot.
Coincidentally, I met two Jasons at the show who are also participating in this exhibition.
One Jason asked if I worked for Boxart before. I said kind of. He said, "hey you made that latex door?" Oh wow how did he know that? It turned out they made the crates for the Social Dress New Orleans piece. Jason liked the colorful door. We were very glad to meet and work together.
In NYC or anywhere this happens a lot. Most artists work for other artists or in art services such as installation at museums or being a crater. I finished Carol Salmanson's beautiful LED light architectural installation at Mixed Greens Gallery this week. I came back 3 am on Thursday morning!
Whenever I can see and meet people related to our activities, I am very happy. Now we know that the humongous crates were made by Jason and Jason (and probably more people as well) at Boxart!
By the way, I am making my version of New Orleans' tourist postcards for the Metro Poles exhibiton. I have more than a thousand pictures I took in New Orleans over the past 5 years, off and on. I wonder about tourist postcards, now that it's digital camera or cell phone camera era. Postcards are not renewed often, and tend to be a set of image of the city. I thought it might be fun to make my own postcards write my commentary on the back where you usually write a message, but let visitors take them and address them to their friends. These are free to take by anyone at the gallery, but if you take one, I'd like you to send it to your friends.
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