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November 29, 2004

I'm so glad that's over

We moved almost all the furniture in the school and stashed it in crazy places (I wish I'd thought to take a picture of the men's shower while it was full of easels), painted all the rooms, installed our artwork for one measly day, then took all the art down and moved all the furniture back. A colossal pain in the arse.

But the opening reception was packed, people had a good time, drinks were cheap, I got my ego stroked a LOT. True to form, I finished the speaker wire dress an hour before the reception started (hey, that's not last minute! I had an hour to spare), and the piece was a huge hit; I thought people might not be able to tell what the sound was, and that maybe the significance of the piece in the context of the other works I showed might not be apparent, but pretty much everyone who came and talked to me about my work wanted to talk about that piece. Here's a picture of Garth (the Rock Star) getting down with the sound.

I won't post pictures of the art right now; later this week I'll put together a page with some installation shots. Instead, here are a few of my favourite pics from the reception:

 

There's my friend Isis on the left, running back and forth between my vinyl panels. And on the right, Mita and Greg providing a nice action shot of one of my skull 'n' bones pocket purses (want one? you can get it at pixie fashions! How's that for some shameless advertising?)

My dad came down for the show, and he brought me this giant zucchini from his garden, which I went around telling everyone was my graduation gift.

The opener and Guinness are there to show how incredibly huge my present is.

Mom and Lynne brought me a bottle of what looked like a normal, local merlot, but last night I noticed that it looks kind of funny:

Can you see it? It looks like there's glitter in the wine! I thought it might just be light on the bottle but it seems to move around, and pool when the bottle lies still. I might have to open it right away and see if the glitter is really there. It's pretty, anyway.

The Marxist-Leninist Party Club gave me this lovely, appropriately coloured flower.

And speaking of red, here's what I'm doing today:

Rolling huge balls of red yarn—see how they dwarf my gigantic zucchini? I know rolling balls this way is bad for the yarn, but I don't have a ball winder. I do have a birthday coming up, though. (shameless) I plan to have a look at the stash this week and resume work on some of the projects that I had to put aside to get ready for this show, but first, I'm starting Rogue. Finally!

Posted by jodi at November 29, 2004 11:24 AM | categories:  art stuff

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