On Saturday night there was an opening celebration for a new show at YES Gallery. It's been such a busy time for me with several other projects, and these days I'm doing all the recruiting and hanging myself which is a very enjoyable creative process but also very tiring and physically demanding. As I wrote a few months ago, in the past I always had difficulty climbing ladders. I found it frightening and stressful, especially if I had to do something like carry something up there and bang nails into the walls. But ever since the last show I've had a very different experience. I still need to be careful, and think about what I'm doing, but the stress and fear have gone away very miraculously with the help of prayer and trusting in God to help me do what I need to do.
Another thing that has changed is that I've started to really enjoy the process as a fully creative one, like playing when I was young. I used to love to rearrange the furniture in my room, and to be creative in a variety of ways, and being at YES Gallery has opened up all of those avenues of my creativity so that I'm finding interesting ways of curating, and having so much fun and joy in the process. There are some places where I have hung or displayed things that have made it so unique and so different from any other space, and there are ideas that are solely my own that I had wanted to try and when I did they worked in ways that I love to see.
Earlier last week a mother and her young son visited the gallery, and the boy spoke with me about the Artists and their work, and art and design and architecture. He really thought everything was so beautiful and it was a lovely experience visiting with them. A few days later his mother stopped by to tell me that they were definitely coming to the opening, and that he'd said after their visit that the gallery was a "10 out of 10" and that it was "better than MoMA." Hearing that made my day and made me so happy! To know that a young art enthusiast had that kind of experience in my gallery lets me know that my own playful instincts and taste in art and design are hitting a beautiful chord.
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