Last weekend

[avad]

I'm so behind on updating it's become intimidating. When things are really going on, I'm just no good at getting it down.
SO, a few highlights of LAST weekend:
*Last Saturday-Big members show at the museum out here. Sort of signifies the start of the season...and is a packed venue. Nice to see everyone out after winter. Nice to have free wine.;)Juror was from the Gugghenheim. I won an award for 'Best Mixed Media' for my piece 'Virtual Tourist'(pic below)so that was a cool surprise.

Resin, nails, enamel, acrylic, flocking on wood.
*met sendao in person- he came out to the show! This is my very first real-live meeting with a cyberfriend and I couldn't help introducing him as my imaginary friend and such to revel in the surrealism.:) All my other friends talked to him so he must be real. Or else they just really love me and are playing along.;)
We went for pizza after and then back to the house for tea and book show and tell.. he showed us the MUD he's developing...and we talked of all sorts of things. Hopefully the first of many meetings.:)
*Last Sunday- dinner gathering at my place for a close group of friends. I set up lots of candles and plucked wet flowers from the purple blooming bush outside and put them all around.Such a warm fun time. Laughter and nonsense. all sorts of yummies. Pony is in transition to move to NYC....so she's giving away stuff and seeing what she can put on ebay and we're all trying on strange clothes playing dressup and being dorks. We took a bunch of pics...L dancing in a flapper dress, Bunny in a bathrobe...These pics may or may never get uploaded but believe me, it was fun.;)
*This week the local papers had reviews of the shows, the museum one and the one at the gallery. REALLY Good mentions in all three articles! wowyay. It's been awhile since I had press to put in my portfolio. Gotta learn to scan this sort of thing.
*I'm still working diligently on Puja/Prayers....up to about 3 or 4 lines of hammered nails a day.
If it's finished in time, I'll enter it in the upcoming 'Tactility' show at the gallery.

Comments

Lovely

[cswallow.livejournal.com]

congratulations on your award! :D Am still terribly inspired by you and the way you approach your art and life... thank you!

Re: Lovely

[avad.livejournal.com]

thank You!:)
And being inspired is the highest compliment one could ever give me- Big smile:)

[burnt-norton.livejournal.com]

ooh, happiness!
congratulations.

[avad.livejournal.com]

thanks, sweets!:)

i can see my house from here ;o)

[rokkitz.livejournal.com]

whOOt! whooOOOT! i'll bet it's not every day that you get to say "Guggenheim!"

hey, wait... there are people embedded in this internet thingy?

working on that puja/prayers thing myself, minus the nails. so glad to hear you're all springy silly and picking growing things from places!

Re: i can see my house from here ;o)

[avad.livejournal.com]

Ha- actually it WAS at one point (everyday that I got to say Gugghenheim)! I worked for a few months in the bookshop of the Gugg Museum when they had one in Soho!:)

Now about the people- I really really think he might've been real! now, you, I know are a robot.
and that's fine. Speaking of, you were in my dream this morn- i think it was you. We were in a class together and as it ended we were yapping away as if we were siamese twins we were so comfortable.

Re: i can see my house from here ;o)

[avad.livejournal.com]

ps- which one is your house? I keep forgetting.;)

Love your Art

[jothoma.livejournal.com]

hi avad. I love your art. Especially the hammered pictures. Must take such a long time to do them. I admire that. Greetings...:o)

Re: Love your Art

[avad.livejournal.com]

thanks much!:)
I just posted an in progress pic of the hammered piece i'm working on now...Started that in January.

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[jothoma.livejournal.com]

...btw...added you as a friend if you don´t mind...:)

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[avad.livejournal.com]

course I don't! flattered.:)