paint and glue and pins....
Feb. 1st, 2003 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermausThis seems insensitive of me to grumble about something personal today...but I need to get some of this outta my head for now. I'm frustrated as hell.
I went to go pick up my work from the coffee shop with my friend TJ from work.
I had to negotiate over the phone for a couple of days for a time to come pick my work up..because they'd "Lost" some of my work. LOST?!?!?! That's never a good word to hear when it's your art they're talking about. They'd finally figured out who I was (???) and I was told one of my pieces had sold. Okay so far, but it would have been nice to have been told sooner.
TJ and I showed up, bought coffee, and I asked about my pieces...two were hanging up, and when I asked about the other two pieces left I was told that they were in the back, and one of them had been damaged "a little"...apparently they'd taken the pieces down without me, (never called to ask) and bumped one of the glued poppy stems off it's moorings. (Actually two, I found out.) I asked about the last piece, a framed watercolor and sumi-e' piece I'd done, and was told it was down a hallway that had a broken lightbulb, it was too dark to go groping around for it in case it got damaged and I'd have to come back another day to fetch it back.
Well.
TJ was kind enough to help bring the rest of my work upstairs, and commiserated with me about the situation. I've been spending some time repairing the damaged piece, a mixed-media sculpture with a crushed heart on a white wood background with poppy stems flanking the top and bottom. I'm still pretty damn angry. I used my frustration to change the artwork a bit, adding pins in the poppy heads and on the background to make it say more about frustration too...
It's nice that I'm being productive, but it doesn't make up for the fact that I'm still missing a painting.
I am Jack's annoyed slow burn....
I went to go pick up my work from the coffee shop with my friend TJ from work.
I had to negotiate over the phone for a couple of days for a time to come pick my work up..because they'd "Lost" some of my work. LOST?!?!?! That's never a good word to hear when it's your art they're talking about. They'd finally figured out who I was (???) and I was told one of my pieces had sold. Okay so far, but it would have been nice to have been told sooner.
TJ and I showed up, bought coffee, and I asked about my pieces...two were hanging up, and when I asked about the other two pieces left I was told that they were in the back, and one of them had been damaged "a little"...apparently they'd taken the pieces down without me, (never called to ask) and bumped one of the glued poppy stems off it's moorings. (Actually two, I found out.) I asked about the last piece, a framed watercolor and sumi-e' piece I'd done, and was told it was down a hallway that had a broken lightbulb, it was too dark to go groping around for it in case it got damaged and I'd have to come back another day to fetch it back.
Well.
TJ was kind enough to help bring the rest of my work upstairs, and commiserated with me about the situation. I've been spending some time repairing the damaged piece, a mixed-media sculpture with a crushed heart on a white wood background with poppy stems flanking the top and bottom. I'm still pretty damn angry. I used my frustration to change the artwork a bit, adding pins in the poppy heads and on the background to make it say more about frustration too...
It's nice that I'm being productive, but it doesn't make up for the fact that I'm still missing a painting.
I am Jack's annoyed slow burn....
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Date: 2003-02-01 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-01 02:32 pm (UTC)I wanted to thank you for the wonderful gift! *warm happy hugs* Thank you!! The origami is impressive, especially those round ones...wow :)
And that Thumbprint book is so cute! I'm gonna play with that as soon as I'm done dressing up for this wedding this evening. Blue fingertips don't match this sweater and skirt. *L* Maybe I'll scan my creations and share them with LJ Land.
Wish I could...
Date: 2003-02-01 04:16 pm (UTC)But I'll warn my other friends not to show there. Ever.
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Date: 2003-02-01 04:17 pm (UTC)Have fun at the wedding!
Re: Wish I could...
Date: 2003-02-01 04:25 pm (UTC)Re: Wish I could...
Date: 2003-02-01 04:26 pm (UTC)Re: Wish I could...
Date: 2003-02-01 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-02 08:31 am (UTC)no subject
all that said, congrats on the sold piece. did they pay you yet?
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Date: 2003-02-02 07:35 pm (UTC)I know stuff happens sometimes...and fixing the piece wasn't so bad, but the unprofessionalism bothers me too...I shouldn't have to fight *this* hard to get my property back:(
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Date: 2003-02-02 07:39 pm (UTC)Well, I took pictures of the pieces for the show...I'll have to download them on Ben the Neighbor's computer and show you. I'll have to make another spirit-mirror, though--that's the one that sold.
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Date: 2003-02-03 07:15 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2003-02-04 06:03 am (UTC)