Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each - giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show.

Crazy ridiculous showing for Pecha Kucha Rockland at Eric Hopkins Gallery last night. Like more than a hundred people ridiculous. I stood in the very back of the room with my mom. She and another woman shared a milk crate to extend their 5’ 3” bodies high enough to see the show; up, down, up, down. Luckily I’m tall, so I could see most of the slides.

The segments were short and sweet, as the description says… and in a way I’m still feeling the experience. Residual waves of inspiration, drawing from the process and art of others.

The line up was as follows:

• Barbara Sullivan – 3D frescos/installation (Life Size nutzo life inspires full size art installation pieces)
• Simon van der Ven – potter (also known as my high school art teacher, V)
• Kristin Malin – landscape painter (Paints one beach scene over and over, looked at a series that evolved with the season and an abstraction of water and change)
• Brian McCLellan – boat builder (Currently teaches at The Apprenticeshop, shared his recent experience in Indonesia where he helped locals build fishing boats after the tsunami)
• Beth Bowley – fashion designer (She owns a chi chi store in Rockland called 412, but she talked about the process of creating a cashmere sweater from the goat to the shelf.)
• Sarah Szwajkos - photographer (Shared a series that she photographs people’s homes, private spaces. She asks homeowners to NOT clean up before she comes.)
• Beth Schiller – farmer, Dandelion Spring Farm (Winter CSA, root vegetables.)
• Brian Reid – furniture maker (Teacher at the Center for Furniture Craftmenship, wild inlaid stuff. Funny dude.)

Awesome abounds.