I generally experience a fix of trepidation and excitement when applying to shows. On one hand acceptance is rather like the gold stars they used to hand out in elementary school. On the other acceptance means scraping up funding for inventory, having to select pieces from my vast photo collection, and entering into organizational hell.
Yay chaos? I mean I thrive on chaos and spontaneity, but past experience has shown that prepping for a show has a non-zero impact on the production of my actual art. And summer is one of my prolific times with all the plants available at the garden store :)
visit Samantha Byrnes' gallery online...
