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This was supposed to be another post entirely about this student art gallery opening I went to. Well, I’ll get to that some other day. This post is now dedicated to my amazing friend J.
J, say hi!
This is J (in the Zac Posen for Target snap tape dress. She’s also wearing Emma Cook for Topshop ruffled heels). She is standing next to her absolutely astounding art installation.
She’s been experimenting with reflected color and from that she created this piece. She painted a ton of triangles and then I helped her attach them to the background using wall paint. I’m still so incredibly happy that I got to help make anything in an art gallery. These pictures don’t do the piece justice at all. It’s the first thing you see in the gallery and it’s breathtaking, arresting, positively majestic. I could go on. Anyway, it went over very well with all of the show-goers and she deserved every bit of praise she got.
And let’s heap on some more now! Ahoy sentimentality!
So lately I’ve put myself in a very tough emotional situation and have been determined not to back down because, damnit, I’m a grown woman and I have complete control over my emotions, thank you very much. Some might even say I have a stranglehold over them. The point is, I haven’t been in a particularly good place and for some reason lately my not being in a good place coincides with a trip to see J. Somehow these trips are always wonderful, and strange, and full of everything I love about being alive. Good art, good food, good music, good scenery, good people, and good youtube videos.
Thanks J, for turning some of the worst moments of my life into great memories simply by being you. For putting up with my moodiness. For being there despite everything I can’t and won’t talk about. And for letting me make some mistakes that we’re going to laugh about for years to come (because he couldn’t, you see, ahahaha! Ahem, excuse me). Here’s to you.
My homage in the book you bought for me. I knew the triangles were going to come back and get me.
