huge art nerd moment.
so, today was the day my dad and i had our day. it involved brunch, used bookstore loitering, the vancouver art gallery, more used bookstore loitering, bowling (LOLOLOL), then dinner on commercial drive. it was GREAT. i'm not really going to talk about how it felt like i was seeing famous people on the street when i saw a pair yuxweluptun paintings at VAG (yes, our gallery is called VAG). instead i will relate a super fantabulous coincidence that just MADE MY DAY.
i love jeff wall. i think he is an absolute fucking genius. i'm familiar with quite a bit of his work (and, my darlings, i'm on a first name basis with his wife - the inspiration for 'the destroyed room' - who gets her hair done at my salon all the time, and i've met him, and his son, though none of them know of my knowledge of jeff's art or love for his genius... isn't that genius in itself?). one of his photographs is called 'the pine on the corner' - it's not my favourite one of his, but i spotted it at VAG today and was like... woo! jeff wall! genius!
we finish at the gallery and go about our day. several hours later, we're getting hungry. my dad suggests a place on commercial drive and williams called 'stellas' - a yummy tapas place with some wicked prawns. i like tapas and i like prawns so i'm down with it. we drive over there, park. my dad says, 'this looks kind of like that jeff wall corner. there were two houses just like that.' and i'm like.... 'woah, it kind of does - only there's no tree'. but we notice that the house is quite set in from boundaries of the property, so we go up to where, if it were the jeff wall corner, the tree WOULD be, and there is this patch of ... non-grass. just dirt and little splintery bits of wood. we are quite thrown by this. there is no way that this could be the corner... THE CORNER... that would just be too much of a coincidence. ...surely??!!
when i got home, i looked it up. the pine on the corner, photographed on the corner of williams and salsbury in vancouver, 1990.
i'm still giddy about it.
i love jeff wall. i think he is an absolute fucking genius. i'm familiar with quite a bit of his work (and, my darlings, i'm on a first name basis with his wife - the inspiration for 'the destroyed room' - who gets her hair done at my salon all the time, and i've met him, and his son, though none of them know of my knowledge of jeff's art or love for his genius... isn't that genius in itself?). one of his photographs is called 'the pine on the corner' - it's not my favourite one of his, but i spotted it at VAG today and was like... woo! jeff wall! genius!
we finish at the gallery and go about our day. several hours later, we're getting hungry. my dad suggests a place on commercial drive and williams called 'stellas' - a yummy tapas place with some wicked prawns. i like tapas and i like prawns so i'm down with it. we drive over there, park. my dad says, 'this looks kind of like that jeff wall corner. there were two houses just like that.' and i'm like.... 'woah, it kind of does - only there's no tree'. but we notice that the house is quite set in from boundaries of the property, so we go up to where, if it were the jeff wall corner, the tree WOULD be, and there is this patch of ... non-grass. just dirt and little splintery bits of wood. we are quite thrown by this. there is no way that this could be the corner... THE CORNER... that would just be too much of a coincidence. ...surely??!!
when i got home, i looked it up. the pine on the corner, photographed on the corner of williams and salsbury in vancouver, 1990.
i'm still giddy about it.