Preview of Upcoming Gallery (Patreon)

Hi! I was sick this weekend and felt like garbage, although my Tesla piece did run on InsideEVs, which was super cool. I also joined a charity stream with Transport Evolved to raise money for A4TE yesterday, on Trans Day of Visibility. A4TE does a lot of legal work to ensure that trans people might actually get to have a future in the US; the donate link for that effort is here. I genuinely think they do great work.

Today, I thought I would show off the large pieces of my new upcoming gallery that will run at Common Area Maintenance during Please (T)Read With Me, 6:30PM-later, on April 5th. (If you intend to come and don't want to be spoiled about what I'll be showing, stop reading here!)

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The title of the gallery is Winter in Seattle, as the images are of winter in Seattle and my wife got me hooked on Gil-Scott Heron recently, and I've found myself re-playing Winter in America pretty frequently. The exhibition is divided into two parts. First, there is a central 24" x 36" bulletin board covered in 4" x 6" drugstore-style hyper-vivid prints that suggests the feeling of winter in Seattle (seasonal depression).

This is (close) to finished, although I plan on making a few more substitutions (and filling in that blank space). The idea is that winter in Seattle is monochrome, dark, cold, wet, and long... and yet there is color to be found everywhere if you look. I stubbornly stuck with color film all winter long (almost all of these shots are from October-February of this past winter), and I ended up with a style that was focused on the little glimmers of bright that I could dredge out of the gray. I have the prints flowing across the board by what I deem the "dominant" color, arranged together and united with colored push-pins for emphasis.

As those of you who are familiar with my work might have realized, I love using tiny prints for massive impact. Ideally, the colors, even from these tiny prints, grab people from across the room and pull them in, and when they look closer, they are rewarded with the level of detail and thought put into each shot. Stylistically, I hope people who live here find it relatable: we make it through the long dark by looking for the little bits of color and joy.

The other half of the exhibition is four pairs of 8 x 12 framed prints. The top of each pair is "Winter". The bottom is "Spring". These photos, while also taken in winter, are less focused on color and more on ideology/visual "rhyming". The sets are below; when I actually have the exhibition, I'll take some photos of what they look like hung up.

I may sell some of these as prints; if I do, I'll discount them for patreon subscribers if anyone wants some! I have not decided... any details at all, as far as prints. I have no idea what people actually want, we've been over this. Every time I succeed, it astounds me, because I have no idea why it keeps happening.

Anyway, here's the Winter/Spring set:

Winter.Spring. 

Winter.Spring.

 Winter. Spring.

 Winter. Spring.

If you're in Seattle, hopefully I see you at the event this weekend!

Vicki