Fond Farwell

Wow all that build up for months and its over so fast! It was another fabulous crawl. Tons of people came through the studio, lots of great conversations, people hand colouring photographs, sounds of chuckles as people looked through old books of projects, and words of appreciation for the exhibit of “Artists in my Studio”.. all just so wonderful. It was definitely strange to have the studio space so empty, like a real gallery, but not like my normal live/work space. I’m going to miss being part of the crawl next year. (but I will finally get to see it!)

Sunday night came the time for me to take down the show and finish moving out of the ARC. I think I finally understand the term bitter sweet. When I was about half way taking the images from the wall, I looked up and saw all the blank space, It hit me then… this is it.. an era has come to an end. I stopped for a moment and thought about all that had happened over the past 9 years, the growth the changes.. so amazing! Then the ARC cafe had an after crawl gathering and there were so many of us ARConians there.. Wow I have been truly blessed to be part of such a wonderful community.

Thank you to all of my fellow ARConians, (alumni included) its been a wild ride. Thanks Eastside Culture Crawl, you have allowed me to create and show exhibits I never would have thought of before. Thank you to all the board members, present, past and future.. for volunteering your time your heart and your passion to such a great event. I am so excited for the future of the Eastside Culture Crawl Society.. and I wish you all well.

I am now in the new studio.. a bit messy yet.. I have to give some huge thanks to my friends… with out them … well.. just THANK YOU!. Dieter Schlatter, Asad Masede, Mike Kammerer, Siobhan Humston, Trish Kostin, Rory Macdonald, Roy Mackey, Mario Sabljak, Phil and Kerry


Photo by Asad Masede

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at 9:57 pm