art sadness

Time for art whining!

The lighting on my sculptures in the Kenmore art show is very poor. This makes me sad. One piece, All Fall Down, is literally half in shadow - there's a diagonal shadow across the piece, so that the lower-left half is underlit, and the upper-right half is not lit at all. It's also in an alcove leading to an unlit hallway. And this piece got an honourable mention from the judges, so it's not like they just didn't like it.

Of the other two, one, Remembering Someone Else's Grandmother, is almost adequately lit, but plays second fiddle in its location to the room's thermostat and is hung next to an open-wall counter between the exhibition room and an unlit kitchen. The third, Death in Hyperspace, is leaning against the wall on a ledge in a dim corner, next to a large utility box that projects out from the wall and hides it from you as you come around the corner. I was looking for it - looking for my own piece of art - and walked right by it.

My pieces are about light. Dark is the opposite of light, so this is not good. I am sad.

I'm going to take in some lights tomorrow and see if I can improve the situation at least a bit. I mean, for the love of god, at least I can get All Fall Down out of the dark. And they said I could, so that's handy.

I'm kind of worried about Death in Hyperspace, too. I'm not convinced they secured it against the wall. I think it might just be leaning there. Gosh, I hope it doesn't fall over or anything.

Anyway. Sadness.

On the other hand, I found out today that I am in fact getting more money for turning these couple of articles I've talked about from 750 words each to 1500 words each, and we need the money really badly, so that's good.

Political post to follow. La.

Today's Cultural Warfare Update

FotF lovefest over an "expose'" of the APA's "political bias" - they've been railing for years about how homosexuality is no longer considered a mental illness;

Congressman John Hostettler (R-Indiana) declares divorce "must be fought in public policy";

FotF claims a California man was demoted for an anti-marriage-rights bumper-sticker in the workplace;

Coral Ridge Ministries/Centre for Reclaiming America spinoff runs attack adds against Bill Frist's decision to support stem cell research;

Measure to hike up "indecency" fines held up for the moment in the Senate - fundamentalists demand action;

FotF: Support John Roberts (ACTION ITEM);

FotF: Poll showing support for public schools is just a "tool" of the NEA, alleges fraud;

FotF action against Starbucks for being GBLT-supportive (ACTION ITEM);

Texas to vote on marriage rights and civil unions ban - both will be prohibited under Proposition 2;

FotF action item to demand more indecency FCC actions (ACTION ITEM);

Bill Frist also endorses teaching "Intelligent Design";

Concerned Women for America endorses, demands action on "cloning" bill - previous versions I've seen would also ban embryonic stem-cell research entirely, not sure about this latest version but I presume it does;

Fox News's "Hannity and Combs" show hosts author of "The Marketing of Evil," a book talking about advances in GBLT acceptance over the last 15 years, support for abortion rights, and other fundamentalist hot-button issues being part of a marketing plan designed to market, well, _evil_; the fundamentalist groups have been pushing this book for the last several weeks, but not in news articles;

Concerned Women for America warns people to watch out for Wicca.

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