So ... My show was on sunday. Which means this was on Monday. So Monday morning I try sleeping in as much as I could. It was pretty gloomy out and I kept wishing that annoying hissing sound my broken heater makes would just shut the hell up. I finally get up, took a shower and contemplated making breakfast. Or lunch.. since it was basically noon. Theo called asking if he left his jacket at our place since it has his keys in it... but no dice. He stayed over and I did my best attempt of cleaning up the cigarettes and beer bottles up the floor from the night before. Note to self never take the trash out 5 flights of stairs to the scary basement in rainy weather. We decide to get some mexican food up the street. Horchata and rice and beans hit the spot. And you can't beat that for under 5 bucks. Unni called and asked if we wanted to go to John's place that night.
John was in the workshop and has done a lot of work with BBI- He even hosted a workshop at his old studio in Shasta in 2007. To be honest I've known of him and said hi at gallery shows but never connected with him. And I hate that. I hate just saying hi or being in the same room with someone for a long amount of time and not listening to what they have to say and to hear their story and get to know them. So Monday night I decided I would get to know him. He has amazing work..and is just extremely smart and funny. We arrived at his girlfriends' place around 7 or so. Drank some amazing Petit Syrah and munched on crackers and listened to this great Nina Simone record. We all talked about our past travels, where we want to go next, current projects we're all working on, what we want to do in the next year. It was just an overall relaxing, good time. I love when people will just invite you to their home and make you feel like you've lived there your whole life, I guess just overall hospitality.
So I'm sipping on my wine feeling a little tipsy as the night progresses and I found his girlfriends piano and start playing. I forgot how much I love pianos. It's basically the one thing I wish I could have brought to san francisco with me.. After John talks to us about his new studio and hosting some shows. He looks at our work and I fully enjoyed hearing his critiques and what he had to say. He talked to me for a while about being a gallery owner- and I told him how it's always been my dream to do what he does and how I still want to work towards that. While talking about shows and gallery stuff he was talking about sizes and when he prints - even with his darkroom prints, how he has this whole thing on the "perfect size" which I really liked.
For those who can't read my shitty fast handwriting.. it says
"I have a weird belief in sizes...no one should tell you what size to print...I think size is audible...Such as HEY YOU!!! LOOK AT ME versus Pst...come here"
It's 2:30 in the morning and I'm not even sleepy. Jesus.
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