I brought my computer to the gallery so I can upload some new pictures finally!
This was the day of the opening. I don't have any pictures of it, but I have a few from before and after. I was pouring wine and cleaning the entire time, and then some of us went out for a beer after.
The new apartment is beautiful but there is no wifi. And no one seems to know if and when there will be wifi. So I don't know if and when there will be another blog post. Sorry.
I got home late last night and was too tired to post. Yesterday, everything for show was pretty much set up, so I had to do a lot of cleaning and preparing the little things for the opening. Marie-Jose (the gallery owner), Brian (the Chinese intern), and I went to a store called Makro, basically the Dutch version of Costco, to buy ingredients for the soups that we would make to serve to everyone at the opening. It was quite fun trying to decipher the labels on everything. Also, for the produce, we had to weigh everything and print our own labels, which was highly entertaining for Brian and I. After we returned, we started cooking the soups. Then we ordered Domino's pizza and ate it with Marie-Jose in her apartment.
I found peanut butter!
In the busier streets of downtown Nijmegen, they have these steel poles that go up and down to allow cars to go through, in addition to stop signs.
The bakery I walk past on the way to the gallery
Makro
Makro
Orange juice machine (sorry it's blurry)
The produce labels at Makro. The other half of that garlic went into the soup.
Appelflappen! (translation: what I'm going to call apple turnovers from now on)
Kinder Suprise jackpot. And they're super cheap!
A gold and lapis lazuli necklace by Etsuko Sonobe. Don't even ask how much this necklace costs because you don't want to know.
...Over 7,600 Euros.
Pizza for dinner
Today I got to hang out with a bunch of well-known jewelry artists, like Nina Sajet, Carmen Hauser, Ulrich Reithofer, Juliane Brandes, and Tore Svensson. I helped them set up for the new jewelry show that is opening this Sunday. It was pretty cool, except for when anyone called out "Nina," both of us would look up and say, "what?" I'm exhausted now from running up and down stairs all day, carrying heavy display cases, preparing lunch, and making coffee and tea for everyone. I didn't take very many photos today, but definitely check out the artists' work because it's amazing.
Lunch for 10 people. Good thing traditional Dutch lunch is just DIY sandwiches.
Ice-cube freezer bags! Never seen these before. Do we have this in the US?
Great idea, right? It's like bubble wrap, except its bubbles of water that you put in your freezer, and when you pop them, ice cubes come out.
All the cashiers at the grocery store wear silly blue stripped uniforms.
