We're about six hours away from beginning our journey to the National Association of Broadcasters trade show and Los Angeles returning via Portland, Oregon to visit our friend and incredibly talented actor/musician Chase Padgett . . . and I'm still in my work clothes and steel-toed boots I've been wearing to work on this studio renovation. The ceiling, perimeter walls and ventilation are now complete and my brother will be taking care of the flooring, electrical, and 10GbE- and HD Base-t-capable (HDMI over 8pin category cable) in my absence. This past 48 hours been kind of waking dream with 2014 Bachelor of Design graduating class industry night at the FAB Gallery at the University of Alberta, a very successful photographic art show opening featuring Gavin Berg, Andrew Forrest, Todd Kemper, David Smith, and Steven Vardill at Brinsmead Kennedy Architecture for which we printed all of the larger prints, Janet finishing a number of last minute print orders, me completing a bunch of routine maintance on my 2003 Acura TL (the Blacura!) which will have clicked past 300,000km by the time we return to Edmonton, Alberta, and my brother, Glendon Tan, assuming sole directorship of my family's real estate investment and management portfolio.
I'm taking a short break from haphazardly packing so I'm going to share a few images. The Art Gallery of Alberta's Rental and Sale gallery and its curator, Ania Sleczkowska, offered me an opportunity to have my first art show. Here are the images. The first three were presented in custom-designed backlit boxes with the fourth and fifth presented on custom-fabricated 3/4" rigid panels with varnished mould-made watercolour paper and the sixth was mounted in the same way as the fourth and fifth but printed on Moab Slickrock Metallic Pearl paper. All photographs were shot in Edmonton with a jade green Toyo VX125 through a Schneider 72mm F/5.6 Super-Angulon XL, Schneider 210mm F/5.6 Symmar-S or a Calumet 300mm F/5.6 Caltar-S on Provia 100F pulled one stop and processed by ABC Photocolour. The backlit boxes and rigid mounts with associated mounting hardware are available from the Art Gallery of Alberta's Rental and Sale Gallery.
