never strangle your christmas gifts. really bad karma. have a good one people. {f}

found this last night in a recycling bin at the local high school. life is good.

for 2 hours on thursday night i got to exhibit my latest work, "3 cups sunshine", in a bank hallway across from a drinking fountain and the doors to the restrooms. i thought the fire extinguisher, emergency lights and beige/tan walls added something extra special to the overall mood of the piece as well. who could ask for anything more? really!

it's super cool to be showing work in stockholm right now [link] but i'm psyched to post that i also have 10 small works showing in the "current collage" group exhibition at the two dots gallery in togliatti, russia. if you're in the neighborhood, the show opened on september 18th and runs through october 15th. it is curated by alexander verevkin (~verevkin) and has a couple of other participants you may know:

Oleg Elagin (rus,video collage)
Fred Free (usa)
Oscar Gaynor (uk) (~Pierrots-Frown)
Eva Han (belgium) (~evahan)
Grigory Katsnelson (rus)
Anastasiya Kolodochko (rus, photocollage)
Vladimir Logutov (rus, video collage)
Vitaly Macklakov (rus, audio collage)
Sveta Shuvaeva (rus)
Alexander Verevkin (rus) (~verevkin)

thanks for stopping by. [and thanks alexander!]
ff

_{artists in the show:
Sophie McInerney, Australia
Jan Stenmark, Sweden
Px(c), Canada
Sandra Mueller, Germany
Eva von Platen, Germany
Eva Eun-Sil Han, Belgium
Christer Themptander, Sweden
Piotr Golonka, Poland
Richard Russell, USA
Igor Skaletsky, Russia
Mia Mäkilä, Sweden
Kareem Rizk, Australia
Edvard Derkert, Sweden
Maria Bajt, Sweden
Woefoep, Netherlands
Randy Mora, Columbia
Vesna Pesic, Serbia
Liz Cohn, USA
Kate Stehr, Australia
Gamze Özer, Turkey
Fred Free, USA}

i won't be able to make it to the exhibit, but i wish i could
as i'm honored to be showing with all these talented artists.
many thanks and praise goes to *derkert for assembling so
much collage goodness under one roof. you the man, ed!