Closing time
Hi Graham,
The face on your rapid young lady is of the same general style as of the French artist who was my main reason for going to the show last night.
I chatted with 'mine' for a few minutes and she seemed rather interested in my INTERrelate interview/snaps concept and we shall see if she follows up. But, I pulled her in front of a couple of her paintings in order to make a shot, and she struck me as extremely shy about it; how odd! That instantly made me think nope, she's not gonna take this forward - it will feel painful for her. Hope I'm mistaken, but either way... actually, I will probably do nothing with the shot I made: the lighting was fine for her pictures, but too many crossed sources for three-dimensionals such as her face.
It's funny what you see at shows: there was this old guy of about my age with a young woman in her - probably, I'm not much good at ages - early thirties in a tight T-shirt kind of thing; bra-less and with amazing accoutrements just below the surface of said garment. Face as tough as nails, but I couldn't help smiling at her. He looked German and she from either South America or the Philippines. Another version of the expensive pair of slippers. Oh - she had a silly little dog on a leash.
Fortunately, my favourite Cuban tenor sax player was in attendance too, so we had a pleasant chat about the changing face of that land, and where he thinks the new political developments will take it. I mentioned that I hoped his countrymen had more prescience about the future than some of the folks in Spain, where property got sold off to foreigners at what they imagined to be ripp-off prices, only to discover very soon that they then became unable to buy back into the market that streaked way ahead of them. He pointed out that a great present problem there is establishing ownership: much property has been left untouched by legit owners for more than fifty years, and these people, many of whom went to live elsewhere, are now starting to trickle back and claim their own...
Rob
