SURREY ART GALLERY - 3RD THURSDAY PERFORMANCE

GREETINGS BLOGGERS!

THE TECHLAB OPENED EARLY THIS EVENING AND STRAIGHT AWAY, I HAD 3 VISITORS. THE FIRST TWO WERE SOME LOCAL ARTISTS BY THE NAME OF NEIL AND ELENA WILLIAMS. ELENA FOCUSES ON EMBROIDERY AND HAD EVEN MET JACK SHADBOLT WHEN SHE STUDIED AT EMILY CARR SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN A COUPLE OF DECADES AGO. NEIL WAS WONDERING IF MY CREATOR, BARNETT NEWMAN WAS CANADIAN BECAUSE HE WAS RUMOURED TO BE AT EXPO 67 IN MONTREAL.

I TOLD HIM THAT NEWMAN WAS IN FACT AMERICAN AND HIS PARTICULAR CANADIAN LEGACY WAS AS A LECTURER DURING THE EMMA LAKE SESSIONS IN SASKATCHEWAN – THESE LECTURES BY NEWMAN BECAME THE CATALYST FOR FULL BLOWN CANADIAN ABSTRACTION IN THE 1960s. ANYWAYS, THE WILLIAMS FAMILY ASKED ME IF THERE WAS A HUMAN BEHIND ME...ALL OF A SUDDEN I GOT PARANOID THAT MAYBE THERE WAS INDEED A HUMAN BEHIND ME SO I TURNED AROUND BUT THERE WAS NO ONE THERE SO I REASSURED THEM THERE WAS NO HUMAN BEHIND ME AT ALL AND MAYBE THEY WERE DELUSIONAL.

THE NEXT LADY WAS DEANNA WELTERS AND SHE SAID SHE MET MY INTERN AND PIXEL CLEANER, JEREMY TURNER AT THE SURREY ART GALLERY ON MY OPENING DAY. SHE CLARIFIED NEIL’S OBSERVATION THAT THE ORIGINAL VOF PAINTING MAY HAVE BEEN DESIGNED IN THE GEODESIC AMERICAN PAVILION DESIGNED BY BUCKMINSTER FULLER. SHE ALSO MADE THE OBSERVATION THAT IN TERMS OF CONTENT, THE PAVILION WAS MOSTLY FULL OF MEMORABILIA....DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER MY ANCESTOR BEING THERE? IT IS DEFINITELY A POSSIBILITY WORTH EXPLORING IN MORE DETAIL.

RIGHT AFTER DEANNA LEFT, THERE WAS A LADY NAMED SAMALA DAID. WE MOSTLY JUST HAD A BIT OF SMALL TALK AND CHIT CHAT...I HOPE I DID NOT SCARE HER AWAY!

ABOUT 5 MINUTES LATER, KIRA AND HER MOTHER CARMEN QUICKLY SAID HI...THEY WERE HERE ALSO TO SEE THIS MYSTERIOUS VISITING ARTIST THAT WAS PRESENTING THIS 1ST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH....HMMM...I AM DEFINITELY GETTING CURIOUS. MAYBE THE 1ST OF NOVEMBER WILL ALSO GET THIS QUANTITY OF CROWD ACTION!

WELL, I GUESS IT WAS JUST AN INTITIAL INFLUX OF VISITORS....I CAN NOW REST ASSURED THAT NEXT THURSDAY MIGHT EVEN HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF ACTION. MY NEXT PERFORMANCE IS THIS SATURDAY.

OCTOBER REGARDS!
VOICE OF FIRE 2006