bethb's Diaryland Diary

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some seattle stuff

I wish i had more time in seattle. the conference ends today. I'm sitting out a session to have some quiet time and then going to the temporary projects talk in an hour. maybe i'll get some lunch.
this morning the PAN had their public art year in review which was pretty inspiring. Also inspiring was the tour of some healthcare facilites here in Seattle with some really interesting artwork.. One place in particular (Harbor View) I used heavily in a presentation i did last year when i had to present the saint Es project to the commissioners and i met the woman who drafted the plan and is also an artist herself and she said that when she was writing the plan, her mom was in a hospital in trenton, NJ and i went 'huh...'. She sat next to me at lunch and i asked her if that meant her mom was at Saint Francis and she said 'uh...yes' and i said i was born there! she said she was born there. she grew up in morrisville too. i mentioned that my parents recently moved to doylestown and she said the mercer museum was her favorite and i said mine too! i kinda think the mercer museum is a visual representation of how my brain works. so now we're bff. not really, but the next time she's in DC we're going to have lunch and i'm going to see if i can take her around to saint Es.
it was a really, really inspiring and surprisingly emotional day. the morning had us walking though harborview and we walked past Tad Savinar's 'Keep them Well' where he used text from patients that he collected in the cafeteria/atrium that this large window overlooks and one of the bits of text said "when it was all over, the doctor sat on a stool so i could cry on his shoulder" and i kinda lost it. Not bad, but the tears kinda formed and then i had a few little sobs. I felt like a fool because it was kind of a surprise that all of a sudden i was completely overcome. i guess it did it's job. i don't know that i would have reacted quite the same way if i hadn't just lost a friend.
after the tours i walked around seattle and went to a great gallery and picked up a card for the new Jason book from Fantagraphics and i went "oh! i forgot fantagraphics is in seattle!" and D went "oh, i went there on my tour today". Her tour took her to the georgetown area which is an artists neighborhood and it's independant artists and businesses all rejuvinating this neighborhood and i was kinda jealous. Afterwards and D and i went out for sushi and martinis and drank our way through belltown. we ended up back at the funhouse at the end of the night where the jackass guys were back. this time with a bed of nails. there was also a guy who looked like a halloween mask and had two black eyes and a lump on his forehead and he kept trying to convince us it was from a skateboarding accident.
we also were at this weird little, sad kinda bar at pike's place and alice cooper's 18 came on which just made it sadder.
seattle has some *super* adorable men. i have to say. it's pretty spectacular.
except for the guys who were at the funhouse. they look like halloween masks.

2:24 p.m. - 2009-06-20

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