Closed on the Maysville Building and now the work begins!

So, the show got delivered and is in safe keeping. The campus art committee is going to decide where they should be hung. It's going to be very special.

On another note, while waiting to close on the Maysville building, I spent part of the week cutting and assembling the mats for Joel Sartore's show in the Third Floor gallery. The prints look great in the mats and I even got the labels done.

I also made a website for FotoFocus for the Regional Student Show they are sponsoring. That was more work than it should have been if the committee there had their act together and gave me text, images, date and links on time. I know they are up to their eyeballs but I was flying by the seat of my pants and I could have just done the entire thing in a day or so and instead it took 2 weeks. But now it's done and up online and students can submit their work for the show.

So, we closed on the Maysville building yesterday and that was also more trouble than it should have been because the sellers were divorced and the ex-wife was still very very angry and unable to function in a reasonable manner most of the time. Everything needed to be brought to a battle and then when the fight was over and the blood cleaned up, a small decision was made. The poor realty agent and her closing lawyer got ears full as did the bank folks. Luckily she lives way far away in California and won't be in Maysville hopefully ever. We can go about our business like hard working reasonable people and get the place put back in order. The tenants left a bunch of shit over the years, some in the basement and some in the stairway and some in what used to be the joint garbage collection place. And when people move out of apartments, they do not clean their ovens, stoves, refrigerators, showers, sinks, toilets floors or cabinets. It's gross and while waiting the first Friday celebration that we are doing, we will begin to clean the personal gross leftovers in the bathrooms and kitchens. I cannot use them unless I disinfect them completely so I went to the store and bought a boatload of cleaners today. All are anti-bacterial because I was so grossed out.

I never considered myself a germ-a-phobic but there is something about someone's personal debris that gets to me. I bought gloves that are good enough for science experiments and brushes and sprays and scrapers.

So, tomorrow, Keith and I want to have a slide show in the front window during the gallery hop in case anyone actually comes way down there. We are showing a small group of images from India. We also have some left over banners from the Krohn's butterfly show that they made of our images a few years back. We also have some signage to put in the windows letting folks know what is happening in the space.

We ran into a former student of our department at the post office. Katrina lives in Maysville and was surprised to see us. She will be an enthusiastic supporter of our efforts in town. There are so many people who have been generous, warming and welcoming to us there. It feels great. We probably will spend time over at EAT with Lori and Simon tomorrow. They have been the best.

I will take and upload some images from tomorrow night soon.

Meanwhile the garden is producing like crazy and we are going to be in big trouble.....

That is all I know now.