I went around my Az to get back to my elbow

well I would have been blogging the caa conference right now but mother nature had other plans. I left tuesday night with a scheduled layover in Phoenix, but when I got off the plane in phoenix I was greeted with the news that all flights into new york had been canceled, so the airlines arranged for me to get a “distressed passenger rate” in a phoenix hotel. I was all scheduled to fly out the next afternoon at 4, when I went to sleep tuesday. I thought in the spirit of the conference on wednesday i would kill my time by going to the museum in phoenix. The phoenix museum of art was amazing, a very solid collection, they even had some purchases, like a tom firedman piece from the show he just had at gagosian in LA.
here are some images from the phoenix museum of art

yet another josiah macelheney, man these things just pop up everywhere

this one is still life with preparators tools

this is an anish kapoor piece titled “please do not touch, or take pictures”

a bronze bob in the sculpture garden
and as a bonus they were doing all kinds of crazy road and sidewalk work in phoenix which created some of the most amazing accidental sculpture i have seen in a long while

in phoenix the clouds just sort of stay put, like this one resting on top of the light pole

this building was beautiful and so was the next one

I was really pumped to continue my art experience with more new york viewing, and then i got the call that all flights had been canceled into new york and i should come to the airport immediately. When I got back to the airport, after much debate and discussion, the airline counter agaent declared it “a futile trip”,which is the airline industry term for when they send you back home. So 23 hours later and one time zone later I touched back down in san jose. To comfort myself I have been working on my job applications, and putting together a proposal for next years conference in dallas. also some comfort is to be gotten from the caa conference blog, which provides spotty coverage at best, oh well today I will just be going to work and preparing the display table for the world in a jar show which is coming up next in the gallery. And in case you were wondering, after being on hold with travelocity’s office in india, I was given a full refund for my airfare and hotel, and my friend james of ars virtua was able to use my conference packet, so I at least didn’t lose my money but I still would have rather been in new york.