Sit back and enjoy the show

Sometimes, when you really want something, all it takes is the courage to ask.

There’s a bar in the Tenderloin where my friends and I have been meeting for cocktail hours fairly often for several years now. The owners regularly change up the decor; as it turns out, they do it by inviting people they know to hang their artwork. So a few weeks ago, I asked them what my chances were of persuading them to let me hang some of mine. To my delight, they invited me to put up a show…with less than 3 weeks to prepare for it. So I’ve been getting prints made, buying giant sheets of black foamcore, getting spare blades for my mat knife, and preparing to mount a dozen prints ranging in size from 8″x10″ to 20″x30″ (which is absolutely the largest print I’ve ever made, and I hope I sell it, because I have no idea where I’ll store it if I don’t).

I promised myself that this was the year I’d start taking my photography more seriously. Just a few months later, I’ve managed to arrange to hang my work, in a venue where other people have successfully shown their art (in some cases, literally selling it on the spot, straight off the wall ), for three months.

Am I proud and excited and ever so pleased with myself? Why yes! Yes, I am! And I’m wondering what other delightful things I can conjure up for myself.

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