Text message from the Artist
to his Muse
May 23 Hey Fran, check this out. Your spirit is
alive & well in the old hood!
The picture of you is from the first photo shoot
we did. I still remember how great you looked
that day!! If we do another drawing together I
promise it will be epic.
journal entries
May
5th (Friday)
Rainy, cool
6th (Saturday) [photo collages]
New girl at Subway, Davie from Taiwan. Friendly
engaging personality
7th (Sunday) [photo collages]
8th (Monday)
Lovely conversation with Radhika. Gave her a
list of photos, from the books, to check out
on the website
9th (Tuesday)
Bought a Sony HX80 for 'VanCity : The Summer
of Seventeen'. Reviewing 'RainCity' &
'Vancouver 2012', & making more lists for
Radhika to check out in the books
10th (Wednesday) [photo collages]
Nice conversation with Taiwan girl, who is
quite interested in photography, & visited
the Fred Herzog exhibition at the Equinox
Gallery
11th (Thursday)
Work on webpages. Showed Taiwan girl a couple
of portraits, & gave her a list(s) of pages
to check out in the books
12th (Friday)
Work on webpages. Texted Reanne, 'Concert
night in the Flying Saucer! Give my regards
to Bono.' She replied, [We got a bottle of
wine to enjoy the show from our balcony
It's our 1 year anniversary today so it's
been a great day so far. Talk soon
13th (Saturday) [photo collages]
Cold, rain
14th (Sunday) [photo collages]
Dark, with rain this morning, sunshine this
afternoon
15th (Monday) [photo collage]
Dropped in on Reanne this morning, & had
our usual complelling conversation. Telling
me how they listened to the U2 concert from
the balcony & that they could hear the
lyrics clearly through the roof. Gave her 2
prints of the portrait (her observations
were amazing!) & I suggested we make a
trade : the portriat for the Oriental
Horse
16th (Tuesday) [photo collage]
Sunshine, a little, very chilly
17th (Wednesday) [photo collage]
Some enjoyable banter with Silvia at LD
this morning about the chilly weather, &
how hard it is to stop eating potato chips
'It seems that anything that's fun to eat
is bad for you. What kind of a world is
we live in?' Nice chat with a Japanese
girl at RBC, Royal Centre
18th (Thursday) [photo collage]
19th (Friday) [photo collage]
Working on a new card for the website
20th (Saturday) [photo collage]
Felt like the warmest day of the year,
quite hot in the sun without a breeze
Ordered AC unit from LD on Robson
21st (Sunday) [photo collage]
High thin overcast, beginning to become
muggy
22nd (Monday) [photo collage]
Swung by 309, where Reanne was sitting
beside the window, reading a book in the
bright, warm sunshine. Showed her the
collage I did of Fran, which she liked
She's quite sympathetic but admitted she
didn't have a good feeling about her
Enjoyable conversation with Taiwan girl
this morning, who was familiar with
Vivian Maier, & told me (& showed me)
about some called Bill Cunningham, who
'always wear blue jacket'
23rd (Tuesday)
First afternoon of shooting in bright,
hot sunshine. Texted Fran the '420'
collage. Texted back, 'Thanks Richard!!
It's so dope!] Lovely cool, cleansing
wind this evening
GALLERY501