I think we artists don’t talk enough about the emotional cost of putting on a show like In LEGO, We Connect. We tend to focus on the successful press, impressive sales and positive feedback but never talk about the dark underbelly. When you put your entire heart and soul into creating something meaningful out of nothing, there
Some lessons can only be learned in person. There is no substitution for hanging ones work on a wall and interacting with your audience; more can be learned in a few short minutes than months on Instagram. The biggest take away from this experience for me, was the importance of stories.
My friend Avanaut has frequently mentioned mentioned his personal guiding light: Stuart. One simple comment left on a Flickr post that reads: You have inspired me. I hope to do something like this with my legos. He is the personification of Ves’as audience in one child, one comment. As an artist it
Opening night is an evening that is both dreaded and anticipated by any artist. I spent much of last week ignoring opening night (denial is not just a river in Egypt), but the appointed time did arrive and we all made our way to the Bryan Ohno Gallery. I am not going to bore
One of the events that we organized around the opening of In LEGO, We Connect was the Saturday afternoon photo walk at Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. Originally this was going to be an event aimed at meeting up with existing Instagram friends, but we opened it up to anyone who was interested. This ended
There are not enough superlative adjectives to describe the week that just transpired: excellent, magnificent, wonderful, marvelous, remarkable, unparalleled and of course…awesome. But before any of that could transpire, a tremendous leap of faith had to be taken by Boris, Vesa and myself. When I went to pick up Boris and
Do the work; this is my daily mantra and it has been extremely effective at keeping my emotions in check and the panic level manageable as hanging the show and the opening reception are looming just around the corner. No matter what happens next week, or even next month, I feel I have done the
For those of you luckily enough to live near Seattle and will be able to attend the upcoming Toy Photography exhibition, you are in for a real treat. All three of the exhibiting artists prescribe to that popular slogan “Go Big or Go Home”. So when we originally talked about