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June 13,2008
 My spawn, Nora  Wednesday was a day and a half to remember. We packed up the old Subaru with a summer's worth of stuff, drove to NYC, linked up with the spawn (that would be Nora), went to the Affordable Art Fair preview reception until 9 pm, had a terrific dinner at Thai Market on W. 107th St, left the city at about 11 a.m. and drove all night to the Cape, arriving at 5 am. Just writing that sentence makes me tired. But, back to the Art Fair. When we got there at about 7 pm, there was a line all the way down the block of folks waiting to buy tickets. Since we already had tickets, we were allowed to go to the front of the line and squeeze in - and I do mean squeeze. I can't imagine that the promoters anticipated this kind of crowd. The aisles were just thick with 30-somethings in trendy clothes. See for yourself.
 Nevin Himself and Laura  Elizabeth and a customer-to-be  Sondra  Our Significant Others being supportive
   Some of my favorite work included, from Vietnam, complex prints combining
text and cartoonish figuration (although there was perhaps a bit much of the cartoonish work in the fair for my taste) and, from England, embellished prints of urban scenes, dense underlayers of frightened crowds surrounded by lots of white space into which they are seem to be exploding. Also from London, thin layers of porcelain wrapped in circles like pastry layers. I found that in a crowd that thick, with visual hyper-stimulation everywhere you look, I gravitated toward relatively clean and simple work. When we fled at about 8:45, it was still packed. Let us pray that they all buy lots of art!
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