It seemed like a long time since we’d enjoyed the First Thursday art walk in our Pioneer Square neighborhood. So, off we went to Occidental Square, where we checked in on Davidson Gallery and then over to the Lawrimore Project by Lead Pencil Studios. Then we circled round to visit Greg Kucera and Gail Gibson.
There were other wonderful shows to see, but the girls were leading the way and outspoken when it came to deciding where we would go.
The streets themselves were lively. We saw a man in a wedding dress on stilts reading a poem, and we ran across a ten-foot-tall furry hammer with a knitted creature sidekick. Did Nick Cave’s artwork escape the SAM exhibition? “Meet me at the Center of the Earth” The girls have there a half dozen times, and they were delighted to be able to touch the art! These giant creatures were pantomiming that they were trying to get into the Gail Gibson art gallery but that they couldn’t fit through the door. The girls decided to help and suggested they lie flat, and we carry them in coffin style, but the creatures would have none of that!
It was inspiring, and the girls spent the rest of the evening drawing potential Halloween costumes. Naomi wanted to create a “new species.” She wants to make something she can dance in that has auxiliary movement (my word, not hers), has soft fur, and is bouncy. Simone wants to create a doctor that is an animal wearing a doctor outfit, and then she wants that doctor to be holding a birdcage with a person in it. It sounds like they are going to need to learn how to sew!