Recently I’ve been thinking about the number of amazing individuals I have met at the Gorilla House. This is a place where art boings creative spirits, one against another. Before I typed ‘boings’, I typed ‘slams’…then I was thinking we sort of ‘rub up against’ one another, but that doesn’t work either. Don’t really know how to describe it, but we more than ‘meet’ one another…that’s for sure! Mayhaps this is where the term ‘connection’ comes in…the Gorilla House is a house of connection! On Wednesday evenings, I shake my head as I head for home. The artists…the visitors…every individual provides for a truly unique sort of community building.
As Max stepped up to the front, during the auction portion of the evening, he was introduced and I remember shouting out, “Max?” Lindsay looked over at me and said…”He gets that all the time.” I told her that my beautiful border collie is named Max…she openly laughed and said, “Oh…I guess that’s a first!” We laughed together. As I looked at the piece he then raised up to auction, I wanted it to be mine.
My Max set strategically close to one of my Covenant pieces.
Max and Lindsay were visiting from Victoria. I only wish that I had captured a photograph of Lindsay’s work! Thank you for your courage and your belief, Lindsay! Both Lindsay and Max were just super open to the Gorilla House experience and gratefully, I was able to purchase Max’s gouache illustration at auction! I recommend that my readers take a look at illustrations by Max Licht here. I am so over-the-top thrilled to own this piece, titled The scale of the problem; there are no words. Thanks for visiting us, you two, and please stop by again!
The Scale of the Problem, poorly photographed by Kathleen Moors, painted by Max Licht
It was great meeting you too Kathleen, and I was only too happy to let that painting go, knowing it was off to a very good home! The Gorilla House experience was a highlight of my stay in Calgary. An event like that would go over really well here in Victoria. Turning the art-making process into a live spectator event is a brilliant idea and was a nice change from the usual solitary activity that painting usually is. I was especially proud of my partner Lindsay that evening, who (in full defiance of her self-proclaimed status as a NON-artist) created a piece that really inspired me with its creative flow, and she even stood with it for the auction event!
One of the great extras about working in the art field is getting to know other artists. There are so many that are exceptional as human beings.