I has a gallery show this summer.

[Kitsa]

...I'm scared.

[Tadao]

Quit bragging.

[pac-man]

She's got something to brag about. Don't be scurrred, just enjoy it.

[Tadao]

If she asked me for my input I would foil her showing!

[pac-man]

"Hey! That's my line!"

[Kitsa]

I did ask for your input, but I'm not going to ruin your rep.

[pac-man]

Imagine everyone in their underpants.

[Tadao]

I AM THE MOST EVILEST PERSON IN THE WORLD!

[Zhukov]

I've been to a few gallery openings and barely any of them have deserved gallery status.

You should only be nervous if you don't think your art is good enough, and if it is good then no worries.

If you think it's crap then just laugh at how you managed to get a gallery.

[doopa]

congrats. where at?

[Tadao]

It's not just a gallery showing, but she may be headlining the summer art festival.

[Kitsa]

Well, Zhukov, that's the sticking point, isn't it.

It's a small liberal-arts town that is very, very heavy into their artsiness.

My gallery show would be during their big summer art thing, which is a little bit more pressure.

[bigtimecow]

can we see this gallery-worthy art?

[Kitsa]

I don't know why it's gallery-worthy but you can see some of it in my "I'm new, here's my art shit" thread.

[Zhukov]

Ok, I don't understand... the bento box ... things, right? They are really, really awesome. You should not be worried, and you shouldn't doubt that they deserve a gallery.

I think you should take it from us; you already have the hard part done; you have the fantastic art, now it's just time to suck up the praise.

[Kitsa]

Well, thanks, it's just this...

I was always just focused on doing the bento boxes. That, to me, was the art. Then I took a pic of it with my crappy sony cybershot to preserve it for posterity. The photos went on my flickr account and people started finding them there. And now everyone's focused on the photos, not the bentos, or at least it seems that way.

And I am a shitty photographer. The lighting is generally bad, it's often a bit fuzzy, and so on. I don't want people focusing on the quality of the photos because frankly I don't feel the quality is there.

I think it's cool that people like the bentos, it's sort of different, and this town is a very openminded, artsy town that will probably accept something new eagerly.

But I am very nervous about my photos being on display.

They asked me who I'd hired to do my photos and it was like, "Srsly?"

I don't know. Fairly confident in the art, not at all confident in the photos. But thanks for the words of praise.

[Zhukov]

Ah, ok, fair enough. But if they are as serious about their art as you say,then they are going to focus on what is seriously the art, and not just the way you have shown it. Or something like that anyway.

They didn't give you some glass freezer boxes to display them in the flesh then?

[Tadao]

Nail some sandwiches to the wall and throw poo at it.

[Tadao]

So i think what you may want to do is make it clear to people viewing your showing that it is an instant art preserved by a photograph and not photography art.

It is acceptable to serve wine and cheese. Maybe you can make little cheese art to serve to people just to hammer the point in. Most people will know that it's not photography art right away, but critics will look for any way to disect it and you can render thier point mute if you do something like that. Sure you can do little sandwiches, but that could get costly. You have plenty of time to figure out what you want to do if you went this path.

[bigtimecow]

make sure there is brie, there always has to be brie. best art show cheese ever

[glowbelly]

i'll do your photos.

[Kitsa]

I actually forgot for a month that this was happening, because nobody from the art council ever contacts me (except for when they bumped me a month). I just remembered it Friday and I was like, oh, shit, I don't have too much time left.

What do people expect out of an art show? They said they wanted me to just mount my photos on boards, but then one art council member said something about a collage describing ingredients. I didn't quite follow her so I'm still lost on that one.

I was thinking of taking my shokugan collection (I have a set of mini bento boxes) as a display accent but I'm afraid someone would steal them.

Shit, shit, this is coming up too fast

[Tadao]

"but then one art council member said something about a collage describing ingredients."

Sounds like that person just wanted to add something to the conversation to look smart. I would advise against it. If someone wants to know what ingredients you used, they should ask you. You want people talking to you so that you look cool.

[Kitsa]

yes! I need to look cool.

[Tadao]

I suggest you show boob.