Road Trip to Stamford Connecticut

Road Trip with this piece in tow.


I don't know what possessed me to enter a show in Stamford Connecticut, a whopping 3 hours and 52 minutes away according to 'Lucy' our GPS, and potentially a 5 hour drive depending on the way traffic flowed, but there you have it! I stuck my nose out, brandished my jpegs, sailed them away, managed to be accepted, corralled my supportive husband into driving, packed all the right munchies and music, and we hit the road with the idea that 'Yes', in fact, my work belonged in the exhibition, "Faces of Winter 2010" and we were going to road trip the piece all the way down almost to NYC.



I felt happy, husband to my left, the sun warming us to my right, the painting safely tucked behind us, occasionally bumping the big white pedestal it sits behind to remind us of its presence, and the Taj crooning away while we did our darndest to join in.






So there we are, trucking along with the dancing, swaying trucks, when all the brake lights go on and we wince a bit at the thought of extra time in the van, but no worries because Jimmy Buffet's singing, "It's a jungle out there and I don't care"...and later, "Some pea brain people think my songs are obscene and nasty...but it's just a love song from a SLIGHTLY different point of view..." The harmonica's good and we're still singing away, so 10 minutes added on doesn't seem to matter. Before you know it, we're moving again, cruise control at 67 and if we're not always on key, we're still having a great time!


37 degrees down here in Connecticut, eating clementines, m&m's, and the peanut butter cookies Devy made for us, not a care in the world, driving along the Scenic Roads of the Merritt Parkway.




We're ignoring Lucy as we drive a different way and she needs to 're-calculate', laughing while we search for more license plates...Georgia, Massachusetts, Florida, New York, Connecticut, and New Hampshire all represented thus far, making the world seem smaller and more manageable, more human, and this place is a mix of simply pretty along the parkway, with what eventually is the loud, busy joy of city as we close in on Stamford. Life is good.



So we arrived in Stamford around 4:00 in the afternoon and it was a quick unloading, bringing it down the halls toward the gallery

and setting it up while also trying to take peeks around the space...a terrific portrait of a blue-haired girl with earrings in her nose, ears, brows, tutu spread out and crazy flowers in the ground, loved it! There were also some terrific sculpted heads, a couple of gentle, small scaled head studies, many larger works, more traditional, highly skilled but not as exciting works... and overall, a strong exhibition that I'm happy to be a part of! You might check out the link below later in the week to see if CSOPA has uploaded any of the images to their site.
http://csopa.homestead.com/FacesofWinter2010.html



The only down side as we were leaving was that there was also a policeman who was leaving after placing a parking violation ticket on our windshield...oops! Didn't see the meter. Onward! Nothing can drag us down, we've driven almost four hours, four more to go. We've successfully delivered my piece, joked with a few artists dropping their work off, placed my piece in the center of the gallery under the firm hands of the director and with the much appreciated muscles of others to help, and are now heading home. We'll be humming to Ingrid Michaelson's 'Be OK' and lazily, headily, singing to Buddy Guy's "Feeling Sexy" feeling that smoky, loungy, lovely feeling, feet on the dash, content.