(click on the image to enlarge)
Professor Tien-Chiu Chen (from Taiwan) holding the "Good Fortune" and me holding the "Spring" (one of my 2 favorite seasons), during the gallery night opening at the NRCSA. (Photo_ Dawn Morante)
Last Friday was the annual Winter Gallery Night in Downtown MIlwaukee and the NRCSA was one of the many places that opened their doors to general public for such occasion. If you miss it because of the weather, I tell you that I do not blame you. I got myself stuck on the highway and was shamefully more than an hour late. If you miss it for lazyness, I tell you that you really missed a LOT. The work of UWM students just back from Italy was really nice, a perfect example on how traveling and opening to different experiences does open doors that can lead you to many different places, specially when it comes to creativity.
On the other hand, Professor Tien-Chiu Chen did demonstrate (with great patience and dedication) the intricate world of chinese calligraphy, which despite of my caffeine overdosed hand-shaking pulse, I still managed to write the two characters you see on the picture above (after couple tries).
It was a good time. I was happy too to see my pictures of "The Genovese Rhapsody" hanging on a wall for the first time and I am deeply grateful to EVERYBODY at the NRCSA for opening the door of "their house" not only to me but to everybody else, making of the Winter Gallery Night a very rich and fullfilling experience, in which I had the "good fortune" of being part of.
F. Martín Morante.
