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Chris BALLANTYNE
Sunny Expectancy
Los Angeles

July 5 - August 9, 2003
OPENING RECEPTION:
Saturday, July 5th , 6-9 pm
(From an email from Chris Ballantyne)
sunny expectancy...
Hey I also thought you might be interested in this correspondence I had with my aunt about some of my drawings. I had sent her some of the same attachments I sent you a while back and well, got a far more interesting response than I expected...
"One of the drawings flashed across my screen saver and reminded me I hadn't responded. I am not a modern art aficionado so I don't quite understand where your thoughts are with the drawings. My first thought was they are empty chairs, very well done in line art drawings, where are the people? Are they waiting for the people to come? They are grouped expectantly like the morning at a sunny resort. The greenish yellow color is the mind, 3rd chakra, and fourth, heart, chakra, so there is a sunny warm expectancy. The cliff in one adds to the expectancy. They don't feel dark, in fact there is a playful lightness about them and the "expectancy" theme comes through in all of them."
Wow. Maybe she ought to write for Art Forum or something.... give it fresh perspective! Any way, not to knock it, but I thought that was more profound than any critique I got in grad school.
How does Sunny Expectancy sound for a title? Chris