1. I have one roommate. She’s really great and we get along beautifully, probably because we have nothing in common.
Anyway, my roommate and I have the funniest relationship. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve never had a fight or disagreement of any sort. I don’t know how else to describe it but a “symphony of circumvention.” For example, we’ve both been home for the past two days, but we’ve never actually seen one another. I might be in my room and she’ll be in the bathroom, then I’ll move out to the kitchen and she’ll be in her room, then I’ll be in the bathroom and she’ll be in the kitchen. It’s the strangest, most perfect harmony. Then I’ll try to catch her, and come out of my room and she’ll just be sneaking out the door…like hide-and-seek, but…a symphony of circumvention!
B. I’ve posted photos in the past of a few of the things I’ve created over the past year or so. What you might notice about many of these projects — namely the sculptural ones — is that they tend to be larger in scale.
The other day I ran into an acquaintance, who mentioned he’d visited the gallery and seen my sign.
“That sign is huge!” he commented. “How long did it take you to make?”
I tossed around the timeline in my head, until I figured it took me two-ish months to complete. “Yeah, it’s big,” I said. “I gravitate toward making big things because I’m small.”
“Ahh, I gotcha,” he replied, “Napoleon complex!”
I might as well have said, “EUREKA!” because at that moment I felt that he’d diagnosed a disease I’ve had for 23 years.
Has anyone heard of this? Little people compensating with big things? Why didn’t I think of this before?
(P.S. He was 5’6″…4.5 inches taller than me!)
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j
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