Just got in from day two at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. The annual public festival takes place at Nathan Philips Square and features about 500 hundred artist’s from all over the world ( except this year there are only 400 due to a portion of the grounds being under construction). Yesterday morning I set up my portable gallery in the pouring rain and didn’t see much action the until late afternoon. Today’s weather however, was perfect and the open air festival was busy. I met hundreds of people, many new and many old acquaintances. The most inspiring of all were the countless encounters with those little monsters we call kids.
Basically I spent the whole afternoon freaking out parents when the youngsters wanted to visit my booth. All the parents see is some guy dressed in black with a whole bunch of scary pictures and the reaction is generally one of apprehension . It didn’t matter today because if anyone even glanced at a drawing I had them trapped. I kept jumping up from working to explain the creepy creatures. I’d share a few tales eventually winning the attention of both the adults and kids. When their eyes bug out at a punch line I get overwhelmed by a strange sensation and somehow life seems that much less intolerable.
The show brings in tourists (though not as many as it used to) and all sorts of all ages and all walks of life. I met people from Montreal, Spain and had fun explaining the weirdness to some Hungarians who spoke absolutely no English at all. I talked with lot’s of other artists as well as with three Torontonians who had been imprisoned during last weeks protest. Damn this weekend has been fun and I get to do it all again tomorrow. The only thing that sucked was the sushi bar closed by the time the show was over and now I am home, sunburnt, exhausted and making my self a crappy pasta dinner. more at http://www.heyapathy-comics-art.com/
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