Expo at ECA

Edinburgh College of Art Graduation Show opened two day ago and I have spent last several days talking to various visitors about my project shown in a very conveninet location of the Sculpture Court. Website also went up, so you can see more than just 3 exhibited Temporal (Portraits) at http://www.sylwiakowalczyk.com/

I have had some frendly conversations with people from Scottish NPG and an independent curator who immediately invited me to take part in the show he is curationg somewhere in the New Town (I did agree though I am going to see the space tomorrow) though beahviour of some visitors bewilders me: they TOUCH works on the wall, they choose their favourite of the provided postcards scattering the rest of them all over the place, they read comments in the comments book without leaving their own and during the private view I had to remove several cups with RED wine that were left just next to the prints in portfolio box.

We are back from Haddington now and back to our regular schedual. I would like to have a look tomorrow if anybody have not nicked my prints (exhibition is supervised but you never know, I kind of assumed that the Blurb book will eventually get stolen at some point as it is too tempting) and to top up the cards as they disappear surprisingly fast - I think at least 200 were distributed in the first 3 days of the exhibition!

Meanwhile have a look at several pictures (courtesy of Simon's new toy about which later) from the Friday evening:

Photographer's BBQ

In realtion to my previous post - some visual material taken during this fantastic afternoon! It is Scotland and the North Sea after all so to have a dip in the sea a wetsuit is recommended. Otherwise your nipples reach Norway the moment you get into the water.

I hope you have had a fantastic weekend!

Mine was like that definitely. I have noticed that I like company more nowadays while before I could have spent days on end without even speaking to anyone, perfectly happy with just myself and my internet connection - now I crave a real human contact.

The department BBQ was a perfect opportunity to catch up with some of the friends who will be soon leaving for London, Taiwan or US and to have a more in depth conversation with the head of department who very kindly provided a lift for me and another tutor. For an hour way to the Tyninghame beach we went through ageing (David said he used to have a nickname 'pretty David' in his youth! And now he is getting significantly balder!), teenage children (Lyovka will be turning 13 this summer as well as Dave's son Samuel who already has a breaking voice, interest in porn and that not very good looking weak moustache appearing on the upper lip), past (David used to be a leading singer and a guitarist in a successful rock band - he played several songs from a 35 year old tape he had in his car and the music was excellent! I wish I could get hold of it somehow but it was a really good rock, perfect for driving on A1 in the scorching sun! I know he is mastering these tapes for Samuel and sometimes goes on stage to play the guitar but I would love to hear some more because I really liked it!), relationships (Arnaud's girlfriend is a really high flyier and her latest job is probably going to take her to Portugal so he is wondering if he should move from Scotland and follow her as we all know that long distance relationships seldom work), Scottish way of avoiding precised answers (as foreigners, Arnaud and I observed that Scottish people would never tell us what they really think - they would just stop getting in touch! Well...fair enough, I suppose if it works for them, though I am finding it a way too easy solution. Maybe as a Catholic I am more emotional? I throw plates first and apoligise later?) and the most important - photography.

Oh and the BBQ was tasty too!

After

I wrote about it here before - my graduation show!

It is now on the walls of Edinburgh College of Art, enjoy until 22nd of June!

Before...