I had a scare two weeks ago catching an intercity to Goulburn because having not slept enough the night before I fell asleep on the journey. In my seat. Lucky that a friend called several times finally waking me up when the train had already been parked alongside Goulburn Station for about ten minutes. I scrambled out with my bags and met up with Michael Garside who runs Gallery 59.
The bags had my artworks in them, paintings as well as a tube with a large paramontage packed in it. I had also brought with me my PC so that I could show Michael the combines I‘d made over the year-end period.
The trip back on another train (see above) was easier because I didn't have to barrel on like I barrelled off! Michael at his gallery discussed plans for my third solo show, to open on 8 March and running for two weeks.
When I got home I thought up the name for the show, I'd had a few ideas but seeing the space and seeing works in the space I had a better notion of what to need and settled on "Gold 4WD", the title of one of the works.
It’s also the title of a free-form poem (see prev post).
If anyone knows a person in Canberra or surrounds who likes art please let them know about our show. The more the merrier. The opening event is 4-6pm on Sat 9 March.
Michael is a painter himself and he said my works are more "modern" than what he usually shows in the gallery. It's nice to feel wanted by a great person, I had a few dodgy interactions on the socials over the end-of-year break. The reason I wasn't sleeping in fact is because I'd been staying up all night. Part of my motivation for keeping this sort of whacky schedule is because operations in the western hemisphere are open when we're closed (for example the US and Europe), but I'd also had trouble sleeping the previous year at around the same calendar horizon so decided to try something different.
Keeping odd hours might've almost made me miss an important appointment but the strange chest ache I'd had the previous year didn't return.
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