long time coming

So, kind of forgot to update for a couple weeks.  Such lapses in personal discipline- very disappointing.  Perhaps it's because Elsewhere has spread its friendly jaws wide and eaten me whole, to the point where I have been incapable of speaking on any other subject.  Fortunately, Elsewhere encompasses many subjects.

I was transforming the hotel lobby here in to a board room (for board meetings) and encountered a blank CD, and wondered aloud to visiting artist Jade Walker, "I wonder what's on this?"  Apparently, JJ had left cd's with images on them tucked in to random corners with no labelling, and had told Jade that she was sure that I would be the one to encounter it and wonder what was on it.  So JJ, if you're reading this, you were right.

What has happened in this in-joke factory since I last posted?  We've had several lovely art openings.  JJ's surveillance piece involved us setting up a thorough security procedure on the bottom floor so people had to get scanned, searched, bags checked, immigration forms filled out, and then wait in the airport lounge to go up to the third floor, where they had the fantastic opportunity to perform surveillance on themselves.  All jokes were taken seriously.  After that came Pritika's piece, which inovolved huge amazing piles and the construction of a lovely quilt of drawings of Pritika, visitors, and others.  Then last Friday brought the opening of the Guggenheim Elsewhere, a celebration of the new relationship between Peggy Guggenheim and Silvia Gray, the respective founders/leading ladies of their respective institutions who at one point met in Paris; oh it was grand, we re-vamped the entire facade to bring a little class in to Elsewhere, Starbucks jazz was playing, a visitor's center was established by Eric & Stephanie, and the second floor hallway was revamped so that people could see a new piece by Jade, a tearoom of sorts with a record player and fabric camouflaged in to the wall to patch up cracks.

All these lovely openings aside, there's been crazy heat which left me effectively unconscious and dreaming for three days and a tremendous amount of miscellaneous work.  Why is it so difficult to speak of Elsewhere to those who aren't also dreaming this dream?

Photographs to come.