I Am Not An Artist

But then I suspect most artists are rather lousy artists as well when it comes to the less savoury element of being successful; dealing with opening night at the gallery.

Yesterday and acquaintance of the Wife and I had her gallery opening. We met her and her husband when they were newly arrived from Paris and they decided to adopt the first kitten we’d ever rescued, which I had dubbed Pathos and they ended up calling Momo. She’s more of an Artist-artist in that there’s a more conceptual bent to her work, rather than pure technical.

But yeah, it was a weird thing to go that gallery opening where everyone was a young, urban professional, dressed to the nines and sagely commenting on the social life in Singapore, the art work before them, and the daily struggle of being successful and wealthy. I found I had little stomach for it and we ended up leaving pretty early if only because I hadn’t had anything to eat all day and needed some food in me. Of course, the same could be said for the artist herself and her husband; neither of them particularly enjoys that sort of thing either, but then this, apparently is the price of success and that is meeting a lot of people you don’t particularly care for and pretending to, at least for a night.

On the other hand Gundam MS 08 squad is shaping to be an excellent series, which was loaned to me by the editor over at GameAxis. Unfortunately the final disc in the series is missing, so I guess I’ll never find out how it ends, which kind of puts a damper on things, but oh well…