Murmured

Recently got accepted into a group photo show at Rock Paper Scissors in Oakland. The opening was during this month's Art Murmur. My image ended up being sent out with the show press release which was a really nice surprise.

Getting my work ready for this was not unlike a recent uphill slog to Bolinas by bike. There were a couple of moments where I was not entirely sure that I'd make it or if this had been such a good idea in the first place. But it worked out in the end, sort of.

The curators accepted two photos which I had copies of on my flickr. When I went through my archives to track down originals I found that my Argentina archives were missing a critical folder, July 15th, 2007 to be exact, the first day in Buratovich, the day I took this photo.


Not that I didn't back it up, but those back ups were on a CD carousel that seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. The other image selected, incidentally, was also on this carousel. That only left the original negative...except that I had left this negative box in the photo department at Cooper over a year ago. Fortunately, Caitlin held on to it for me. She gave it to my brother and then he mailed it to me, along with some Amol.

The negatives arrived in the nick of time, they got scanned and the next day the file was printed. Then mounted on foam core. Then dropped off at the space with 24 hours to go until the opening. Then it fell, got dented and re-hung, albeit a little crooked, with alligator clips...sigh, more dents in the image area. But I didn't know about any of this until it stabbed me in the face the minute I walked into the gallery...