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Dear Mr. Doob,

I love you


Harmony : now with colour :)

My hand hurts, my butt hurts.

omg, so i know...

nothing? everyone? everything?

3outta14

If you had to talk to 3 people for the rest of your life, who would you choose?

If you had to throw away 11 of your favourite books what would they be?




How do you make your decisions?

are you a

too?

Just checking.

no really

So there. I said it. :)

GAC Art Show scoop

The opening was on Saturday last, and had a pretty good turn out. Much to some collectors' disbelief, there weren't that many sales. Since opening night is the sales night, well everyone seemed jaded about it. Incidentally none of mine have been sold (yet!). Heh heh. Another artist's stuff sold out probably that night and she's put up new work already.


I've had no inclination to go check if they changed my labels though (they spelt my name wrong and I knew I should have done my own labels).

I realised afterwards when rifling through the photos, that I took no photos of them at the museum (not a fan of placement), so the ones you'll see here of my work are at the framer's place the day we dropped them off.
Sorry they're BlackBerry photos.

Next time, they definitely won't be standard sizes (eh - budgetary decisions), and will be larger, with crops that I like. That's if I can get some good prints.
Of course I may not show photos again. This was really rushed. These are one-off prints though, so you won't see them reproduced again! More than likely I'll print in Trinidad and frame or mount here. It'll save me some stress.

Well hey, at least one or two people looked at em! This little one is so engrossed :) Cute.

The museum is an insanely old building but  it's so gorgeous I can't help but squeeze in a shot here.

Oh and before I start doling out the images, just a reminder that the theme for the show is : The Town of St. George's. 

So off we go. Presenting.... lovely reflections off the glass.

Meg chose some really nice mats though, so they really do enhance the images even more.

I had to go the super cheap way, but it's ok, I'll splurge for the next set... hopefully. 

They are all 8 x 10s (sigh).

Title: repent sad heathen

Grenada is still very traditional religiously. There's some small church near to my house that strikes up really horrible singing (but with a good P.A. system). The culture is rich with a variety of religions too. Much to our horror, they continue to well, uh, breed. Anyway, we're little heathens apparently. If only they knew what we really thought.

The stencil in the photo is on the outer protective wooden wall of a church reconstruction in town. They couldn't even leave the construction site alone? It is decorative though. No doubt.

Title: gotta touch the bottom before you can come up

This one is the general hospital in St. George's. Very pretty roof  and cute roundyarchy architectural feature.

I also have no idea why the hospitals in both St. George's and in Carriacou are atop mountains... you don't want to have to walk up there if you're sick. Really.

The title is copied from (I hate the word inspired) by lyrics in a song I am currently obsessing over by Jack Johnson: Let It Be Sung. It really struck a chord to mon coeur, from the move, from living here, and from my life experiences this year and last.

Title: Scrambling towards

Up at Fort St. George is this gorgeous little tunnel. It's the darkest piece of the series, and I had two minds about including it, but, upon suggestion of the printer I think, it was included.

Maybe I'll do a black and white photograph series at some point.
(This isn't black and white).

Being here has been quite a journey, an almost endless tunnel. There is light there though. That sounds disgustingly cliche. I really want to backspace that, but I won't (for now).






Title: flying high

I love those pennant flag things that are all over the place, especially for Independence. Really pretty to see. They're incidentally the Rastafarian colours. *giggle*

Naming this as such, is also a play on the weed culture that's quite popular here. Yeah I said it. 

Everyone's freakin high ... or should be I guess. Although, thinking about it, no one seemed high at the show. There wasn't an after-party! Oh noes!
Nevermind... Art Council eh? Oh I miss home sometimes :)



Title: playing by myself

When I moved, I was alone. Hell I am alone. I love it. I love being alone. Yes yes, I know, I'm a hermit, but I love being alone.

This is also up at the Fort, which is funny to me. In the middle of the courtyard of a beautiful old fort, there's a... basketball ring? To my newbie eyes, I was struck with its randomness and loneliness. Though I am sure it gets used by the guys who frequent the gym that's there too. Yes there is a gym, at the historical fort, and no, I didn't ask why.

The most response you may get is, "It's Grenada!" The place is awesome actually.

Title: where you live says nothing

Walking up a nice mountainous street, I am sure people were wondering what this halfass tourist with a huge roll of brown paper, and hand of bananas was doing staring up at a random building and grinning.

Whenever I tell Grenadians where I live, I always get the same reaction: screw-pan. "You live WHERE?"
Nope I don't live in a bourgie area, I am not a student, and no I'm not American. I love the shock factor.

Apparently my area is slightly ghetto. Whatever man, no gunshots, no crime (that I know of), and our friendly neighbourhood drug dealers don't bother me. I'm close to a bakery (dear carbs I love you) and I can see the sea. It works for me!

drawing things out

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi

The one good thing about living in a quiet place, with no annoyances (minus the whiny kite some idi.. err kid left strung up), is that you get thinky time. Thinky time is really spiritual. I do a fair amount of  musing when I can no longer see, or do work because my hands ache. 

I quoted Rumi because, well it's Rumi, and who can resist such brilliance? Anyway, if you replace love with art in his quotation, (it's one in the same art=love), you may or may not realise the barriers that you create when creating. Catch my drift? If not read ahead.

I have a certain way I work that works for me, and I am usually half satisfied at the end. Of course I must grow artfully, so there is that stuff I have to do that I despise, but will roll around in the muddy mire of old art techniques if I don't do it. For example, I hate still life. I am good at it. I groan at the thought of doing it. It's good to do though. It will help me develop techniques and crap. Oh joy. Excuse me while I go find some dead thing to draw. It will stay in my scrapbooks foreeeeever.

Art Show update

The show's opening at 5pm tomorrow, so dear Grenadians and others, I look forward to seeing you there! Mwah mwah! Schmooze schmooze.

For the rest of you who won't make it to the opening, the Museum (upstairs) is open from 10am-6pm weekdays and 10am-2pm on Saturdays. Groovay?

In other news, I've gotten some of my images in the GAC commemorative catalogue (this is good I think), and I've been killing my hands hand-cutting my cards (see pic) which were shoddily printed at a local place. They'll do for now though.

I need to get my own cool printer though and REAL good PAPER. (Trying not to take after Jason's artist-diva-curator-naziness. I have been trained quite naughtily.)

harmony

Drawn with Harmony.

Very. freaking. awesome

Ohh now this saves me a TON of time.

I could spend hours with this - ahhhh! I love it hard.

be love

"...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty." - James Redfield (The Celestine Prophecy)


It's one of those days.

Earth

Earth, originally uploaded by TraceyChan.

I was going to do something, and it ended up being something else, so I don't know what it is anymore.
That's it really. Still getting used to the tablet.
I have paintings started on my wall and I don't like them at all.

Grenada Arts Council Show

Dear everyone in Grenada,
Please join us for the show if you can. There's enough time!
If you're not going to make it and or you're in another country, (ie most of my readers), I'll be posting the works after the show opens.
Lovely.
See you there!