Did a number of sketches this week but can’t seem to get them scanned, it’ll have to wait till I figure out what’s wrong with the scanner at home (or find another way). Last night, however, I went to an opening titled “Market Forces / Part II: consumer confidence” at Carriage Trade - it sounded more interesting that what I actually saw.
Too often, the idea of a show, and what’s actually present to look at, don’t really sync up - to me, tying a bunch of photos, paintings and constructions to an economic construct - Consumer Confidence, for example, is very thin, even if you can add images of things that one consumes - it’s almost as if the connection is the curator - the idea a curator has.
But the point is - not what the curator thinks, it’s what we think - what people get out of the show - and does the elements of the show actually support, in an artistic way, the theme of the show… and it didn’t, at least, not for me.
But the wine was good! And I needed a drink, it was long, long week - some of it spent in Toronto, at the Social Media RoundTable and Third Tuesday …. and actually, I made a movie I posted up on YouTube about my Toronto trip - see below:
I’m taking a short trip to Toronto to attend the Social Media RoundTable at the Hilton Toronto (it’s actually today - but I haven’t slept yet).
Meanwhile, tonight I had dinner with a friend, Liz, and drew this portrait, which I think is one of my best. I never know what I’m going to come up, and I honestly don’t feel as if I know how to draw. On the other hand, when my portraits look at back at me, I know I’m close to done, if not done.
Often, I feel my drawings are too dark - but wasn’t Rembrandt’s drawings and etchings just as dark, if not darker? I think each person has to find the answer to what works for them - somehow, I’ve happened on using ball point pen, sometimes pencil too, as I did here - but the approach feels right for me.
And my notebooks, the most personal part, are meant to stay intact (I do my drawings facing each other - I don’t want to exhibit them outside the notebooks they were created in - even though, I was told, many would look great framed.
I updated the image which I cropped while waiting at the airport to board the flight to Toronto.
I was looking at the International Photography show on Sunday - by accident - in Dumbo. I went to visit a friend, Janice, who rented a studio space nearby and wanted to see the space in case I want to have a studio space of my own in Dumbo, sometime in the future.
But I also saw a lot of other stuff - and I put some of it on YouTube (below), including Jane’s Carousel
