when it rains it pours

this is a view of the street in front of our apartment after a short summer cloud burst. Typically multiple areas of the city flood after a good rain. People who are native charlestonians are used to these happenings, but new arrivals are panicked at the thought of being a little wet. Some people even stupidly drive their cars through this and then are surprised when the car stops working. I think it is still one of the charming things about living in a less than modern southern city, that we pause to respect mother nature.in the above picture the women on the porch of the store is actually stuck temporarily until the waves recede(the store is in the front of the building we live in). this is not global warming this is just charleston, a beautiful city that is mostly at or below sea level.

this is the view from the gallery prep area at the gibbes museum of art where i am now working.

this is my desk at work, it's weird that i have a desk, but oh well. the one thing about working in an office that is universal is how similar things are to the tv show the office.not to sound like pitch man for that show, which i did not find super funny the first couple of times i watched, but the show grew on me and seems to represent the truth of the world in a way that seinfeld captured life in the mid-90's . To extend this line of thinking if seinfeld, and shows like it reflected our comic desires in the nineties, hanging out in our friends apartments, coffee shops, and diners, then the office reflects our millenial desires to be hyper productive and vigilent in our pursuit of normalcy in the post-september 11th global world we live in.

this is the rest of the prep area where i will spend a lot of time matting and framing historic prints. you can see the racks of frames, awaiting art. i can't show you any other parts of the museum since that would require clearances and what not, but this is the part that i will see the most.

about of good news and opportunity opening up all at once. in my life right now i have multiple examples, even though my studio flooded a bit in the recent rains damaging some drawings and works on paper i have been working on, and i keep getting a steady stream of rejection letters from various things i applied for, i do have a couple of i also like the expression "when it rains it pours" because it can describe an overwhelmingsignificant occurrences. the first positive storm on the horizon is the peoples art center, which as an ad hoc organization of artists, gallerists, developers , and other interested parties trying to develop a vision for a unified arts center for charleston's arts community. one of the exciting ideas being tossed around is making a temporary model art center, but nothing is set in stone and a panel is being held next week to discuss ideas of what is possible. the second thing, which i don't want to jinx but may help by talking about is my hopes of finding a viable space downtown. Tomorrow i am looking at a storefront space downtown, that has me really excited about the possibility of opening my own gallery. but as with everything i am keeping my expectations low so that i won't be disappointed if it does not turn out.