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Back in the beginning of December we went to Miami Beach for the ArtBasel contemporary art fair madness. Had a great time as usual...give me art everywhere, friends, artists, mohitos and warm weather and I'm in pretty good spirits yesireee. ( read more )

Scope NY was madness. I really have to practice getting out of the house more before attending things like this. Impulse: Run!
But I stayed. Delivered the pieces to my gallery room and met other artists..Feeling way too shy.
Started to look around a bit at other rooms, but it was just overwhelming- too much art, too many people. whew! I finally ran off to get something to eat at a nearby diner and took some deep breaths. picking at a greek salad and oh please sir, may I have a lil shot of kahlua in this next coffee refill, much thanks.
scribbling away in my lil journal pad. Trying to relaaaaaaxxxxxx. WHY I get so nervous at these things, I don't know. I think it's the schmooze factor. That I feel I'm supposed to be making contacts and 'selling' my work, when I just want to walk around and quietly look at art and basically avoid most people. er.
It really is a bag of opportunities...but I just don't feel like schmoozing. Some people did it FOR me, and I was surprised and grateful, because those few contacts could turn into something major.
But for me, I was just happy/relieved to see familiar faces. Darius Yektai and his adorable wife,.... Sara Nightingale..Matt Satz..we all hung around a bit, drinking out on the balcony of 300-Matt's room..
Here I got to talking with an interesting fellow, Sebastian of FluxFactory. His artist collective does some strange things...they were selling lemonade somewhere in the hotel there for $100 a glass(!?) but I loved his story of their Impossible Teaparty" project. That's Sebastian in the fedora.
Left later for dinner at Tortilla Flats where they insist on giving you free shots of tequila, oh god. So that's after my wine and my margarita. Getting back to Scope, it was a madhouse. Line outside running around the building....ergh. Then the penthouse party was full to capacity so we didn't even get into that! We looked around at more art and then had to catch the train.
ANyway, I know you're dying to know what i was wearing. no, really. I know it.;)
so I snapped 2 pics at home to try to show you my layering talents.;)yes, my dollie T is darned cute.And no, I don't know how to take a pic that doesn't show that I'm taking a pic.;)