2 posts tagged “hot dog”
To finalize our careers as art majors at my college, the handful of art majors rented a space downtown to display all of our work. The space is somewhat haphazard, an entire floor with various open spaces and tiny rooms with windows in which the majors distrubted and hung their art. Since my project could only be viewed in the tiny sketchbooks I rendered my drawings in, I only needed a single room with a very simple display. A few of the collages I did last minute are taped to the wall, and a tiny pedastle holds two of my sketchbooks.
The opening was this afternoon starting at 2pm, but since I've become out of the loop I didn't know until I headed over at 3:30 with my two friends Sarah and Meggie. When I got there, it felt like a real opening. There were some refreshments at the front, but the entire space was filled with students who excitedly went from room to room to look at the various art being displayed. Most of the other majors had ambitious paintings and sculptures to enjoy and I felt that my work was somewhat meek and overlooked in comparison. Thankfully, I began to notice people heading into my room, crowding around the books and looking on collectively. I got a lot of compliments, but I'm awkward about compliments, so I tried to be anti-social and sort of fluttered around the viewers.
All in all it was a fun experience. I'm very proud of the other majors, and it was nice to sort of celebrate our coming together in this final display. After we hung around for a while, Sarah, Meggie, and I went to Soul Dog for a mid afternoon treat. Organic chicken-dog with vegetarian chili and some chilled gazpacho. Yum.
After waking up early to do some work this morning, I headed up to the city to get to Brooklyn around 5:40 PM. Chico (sometimes called gwomeul, affectionately) and I headed out for a night time walk around the Lower East Side. Chico had this food stuffs place called the Automat that he specifically wanted to show me before we headed to dinner, a place where the ultimate vending machine and fast food treats combine forces to deliver passer-bys with junky sustenance.
While the temptation to gorge on ice cream and mozarella sticks was strong, we opted for our apetites to be saved for dinner, where we dined at the lovely Yaffa cafe. Chicken dumplings and salads to start, penne and crab, and chocolate soufflé. Yum!
Now we are watching the first season of the Venture Brothers. Very entertaining!
Horray for gwomeuls!
