They had been created from photos and paintings by different artists, translated to a weaving pattern by computer and then woven and (some of them) reworked by hand. A few of them were so textural that Ian had to hold my both my hands to keep me from touching them (I wish there were more touchable things in galleries). It is a show worth seeing, though I’ll admit I’m still trying to figure out the purpose of recreating a painting as a tapestry. What does it all mean?

The gallery itself is really beautiful and the cupcakes offered at the opening for the tapestry show definitely helped to boost my already high opinion of the place.

I can understand being torn because I’ve always been approached my work by focusing one project at a time and considering anything else an unnecessary distraction. But as I’ve continued to work on more and more projects, I have learned that distractions can be a good thing. I don’t think that there is any reason to feel a need to chose between film and digital. Both can be fun. Yeah driving out to Ventura is a drag and gas is expensive, but heck, I have to drive out there at least once a week anyhow.

As far as the art scene comment, I have been finding lately that inspiration comes from smaller and less lofty places than enormous art galleries. The best work I’ve seen have been more personal works that were never meant to see the walls of an art space. I have come to prefer smaller art gatherings were folks get together, show their work to each other, drink a glass of wine and have a few laughs. I like the big shows too, but usually they are best when a big group of artists set it up themselves, or someone is showing large pieces that are just too huge to put anywhere else.