NYC runabout

[avad]

Zipped into NYC for just a few hours by bus.
Long overdue stop in at Margaret Thatcher Projects to touch base with her and pick up my check for the piece sold. Talked a while with MT in the office...I think I started to ramble about all that's on my mind with the virtual worlds/islands and computer networking stuff...and though she was perfectly polite I don't think she had any idea what the heck I was talking about (and it was my fault). Ah well, I don't get out of the house much. Forgive.
Anyway...she said to send her images of my new works when they're done...and we'll keep in touch and see where this goes.

I have GOT to get more work done. A more 'enterprising' artist would have been focused on only that...and would've met her with images of a 'BigShow' in the works. But...I really believe in the other stuff I'm doing as well and think this time was absolutely necessary for it and I made great leaps and bounds in my other long-term goals. (Pier10 and 10%Club). So, Balance and pacing is key now. Want to take it in stride and not stress and just be grateful: I have 3 group shows coming up this next month in April. One at the Islip Museum, one at Gallery North, and one I was just contacted for at the MAAS Project Space in Houston, Texas. woohoo!It's going to take a lot of juggling and shipping to get pieces from where they are to where they need to be...but doable. Eveything is doable. *breathe*

From MTP I took the subway and walked to my favorite Housing Works Used Books Cafe in Soho to meet up with formerly imaginary artistfriend and now proven sweet and real ninakatz. She came in from Michigan to check out the ArtStar reality show/documenatry open call in collaboration with Deitch Projects. Filling me in on the strangeness of it all, waiting in lines, cattle call portfolio reviews, etc. What a wacky concept!- a group will be chosen to collaborate on show at Dietch...and they'll be filmed 'reality tv style' as it goes along! Someone is going to have to tape this for me when it airs because I am just toooo curious (and don't have tv).
My miniature world-hero/artist friend Kim Keever met us there and we all chatted round a cafe table about recurring dreams and art and the phenomena of LiveJournal (he didn't know about it- said it was bizarre enough to be a movie- and so we invited him to check it out). (so if you're reading this, Kim, bite the bullet and start up your own!It's where All the cool imaginary friends hang out haha;)
Anyhoo, I had to run off to catch my bus but was glad to have made those connections in my brief visit.
Waah but I never got to look for books of course....all the best ones were probably all there for a dollar!
Love that place.
Ok off to paint!!

Comments

[space-botz.livejournal.com]

Hehehe... poop art!

[avad.livejournal.com]

whew. *sigh* it's still SO difficult for me to imagine it as a natural 'un -icky' thing, having grown up in a culture so repulsed by it. And in so many cultures it is SUCH an important substance...daily use...for the houses, hair, everything. I'm slowly putting together a long post for the 10percentclub about a school restoration project I supported in Togo...and you'll see how the floors are packed and sealed with a slurry made of cow manure...

[crazedartist.livejournal.com]

your day in the city sounds *fabulous*!!!
and you are so right gal it's all about balance!!! and that can be hard for me!! *grin* i hope your having a faB friday!!!! *)
x0x ~t!

[avad.livejournal.com]

thanks sweetie, so far so good! Listening to a cd made by a friend...writing in my journal (handwritten)...
Lots to do today...but i'm starting it out slowww.:)

can't remember the name of the artist...

[bspark.livejournal.com]

but the photographs of the child and the elephant, those are showing in New York very soon. a friend of mine was telling me about it.

I thought you should know if you didn't already. I will try to find out where they will be for you.

oh, new york, how I miss being there! I can't move back soon enough.

Re: can't remember the name of the artist...

[avad.livejournal.com]

Oh you don't know the half of it!! It's SUCH a wacky story. So I had that dream (http://www.livejournal.com/users/avad/81134.html), right?....then happened upon the photos (http://www.livejournal.com/users/avad/81312.html), right?... Well, then a friend sends an email with pics of the outside of this 'Nomadic Museum' a temporary construction made up of shipping containers being built in NYC...because we had been discussing the use of shipping containers as alternative artspaces...
NO idea what was inside though. Then aNOther friend says oh yeah, that's actually for the show of a photographer friend of mine, it's going to be ALL his work. wow, cool. Still no idea. THEN B's sister sends me a snailmail with an article cut out from a magazine about the Nomadic Museum...and I open it up and WHA?? Everything snaps into place.The Ashes and Snow show is opening in NYC NOW at this amazing temporary constructed Nomadic Museum and the photographer himself is Jane's friend (she worked with him for years!). Err. Think the universe is saying I'm supposed to go? haha.
GEEZ life is weird. *insert eerie dream music here*

[eyeclectic.livejournal.com]

Did you visit The Gates?

: )

[avad.livejournal.com]

No, I really underscheduled in order not to overwhelm myself. I didn't have that much time.
To be honest, Not sure why but The Gates don't call to me personally...I think it's probably great for people who see Central Park often...and now have it temporarily transformed and 'special feeling'. Something to really help make a 'walk' be experienced as an Event. And that's beautiful...but doesn't feel necessary for me personally at this time. I've worked on that and happily I can say I feel the 'Event' of most days and walks wherever.
This world is amAzing. I'm sure you agree...hehe cause the real Gates are in the Eyes;).

[eyeclectic.livejournal.com]

Yes, though Eye Believe it transcends the eyes, as "Things We can't see are often more remarkable than things We can!" Eye, personally, had a very moving Eyexperience, as Eye met my Guardian Angel, at The Gates. It was also interesting to witness the reactions of others who might, otherwise, pass each other in the park, stop to talk, sharing thoughts, feelings and smiles, taking pictures of each other, and exchanging cards and contact information with previous strangers, with whom they may not have, otherwise, allowed themselves to meet. As Eye, myself, met many prominent and heart-guided new friends while walking The Gates, the waves that flow from these very personal connections are quite Positive~> and may very well lead to even greater events in Our future that may not have, otherwise, been born. Much like what you are doing in SL, but even more surREAL. Eye only wish Eye could have spent more time~> Very !nspiring!!!!!!!

Positively,
JS : )

[eyeclectic.livejournal.com]

Though Eye do agree, as Everything is like that for me!

: )

oh, sure

[(Anonymous)]

Come into the City and don't even call! Just kidding. I know how it gets when you have to go in and out on short notice. Glad someone alerted you to Ashes and Snow. We were discussing it in the office yesterday.
By the way, I have photos of The Gates if you're at all interested. Nice to look at, but overall I was underwhelmed. I even snapped a photo of two cute Basenjis (the non-barking dogs) who'd just, uh, expressed their opinion all over one of The Gates. They liked them so much, they marked them as their own!