ninjablurb

wow. i can’t believe it’s january 13th already. this is the first painting i’ve started on this year! crazy. it’s been so busy… the gallery moving and getting the show ready and the holidays and taking down the holiday show and looking for some more work… i dunno. feels busy and yet there is so much to do… i wonder what this year is going to be like. i keep wondering about that. it’s still strange that i’m in seattle. anyway – the days i go to the aquarium are really fun. relaxing. what a great gig. i get to hang out and watch fish and anemones :)

Suite 100 opened it’s door for the first time at its new location! It was an exciting night… we kept the old spot open during the Belltown Art Walk, from 6-8 pm, then closed those doors for the last time. The new space stayed open til 10. change is exciting, but i am always a bit sad to leave the old. i’ll be sentimental and nostalgic about the old space for awhile, i’m sure. It was a cozy little spot. So now we move on to a larger space and new adventures. i wonder what 2009 will bring…
(You can check out the show here.)

i’m starting to realize that seattle is not the city in which to have holey shoes. All my shoes seem to have holes on the bottom and i’m getting (unhappily) used to having wet, cold, wrinkled piggies. I guess it’s time to go shopping. (after discussing this with the bus driver on my way home tonight, he generously declined my $1.50 and told me to buy myself some shoes. my “money’s too tight for new shoes” excuse won’t hold up anymore i guess!)

Suite 100 Gallery is moving! We’re moving a block north of the current location, to the space vacated by BLVD Gallery, next to Roq La Rue. The space is about three times the size of the old gallery, so this is gonna be fun! It’s a really great old building with tall ceilings and wood-framed windows with individual panes of glass above the storefront windows. Our first opening is this Friday, the reception for “Local Aesthetic“, featuring Troy Gua, Greg Boudreau and Ryan Molenkamp, during the Belltown Art Walk.

i saw an old couple get off the bus in my neighborhood tonight. The woman got up first. He was a little slower to stand up, as the bus was still rolling to a stop and he was using a cane to help himself out of the seat. She had a clear plastic rain bonnet over her hair. You know the kind that starts out folded up like a little accordion fan? they interacted so naturally and i wondered how long they had been together. And I wondered if i might ever be in a similar situation. But then i worried… does it just happen that one gets old lady hair-care knowledge when one gets to be of a certain age, or would one have to have been born pre-WW2? I wonder what i’ll look like and dress like when i’m that age… if I live to be that old. I can only picture the way I dress now. I’ll probably be a bit of a mess then, too, but I admire the care and precision with which older woman sometimes seem to dress and take care of themselves. Some of that seems a remnant of times gone by, though, more so than just an accumulation of years.

i am glad that b. convinced me to go to the space needle tonight… i really wasn’t feeling like it – i’ve never really been one for the NYE thing and wasn’t having a good night, but i didn’t want him to miss it cuz he was so excited… and then, like after so many other new things, i said “why didn’t you TELL me it was going to be so cool!?!?!” i didn’t realize they actually shot them off FROM the needle, i thought it was just sorta in the near vicinity of it. it was quite spectacular. i just got a few shots from my camera phone. even the rain and the crowds weren’t that hard to bear :)
so.
i guess it is a new year.
no pressure, right?
just promise, right?
each day is a new day?