5:20 PM: this afternoon at the gallery i made a drawing of gallery director and new friend yiorgos tzaneris.he requested that i make a drawing of him to add to his rich collection of gallery artists who have drawn him.
it’s always a little tricky to make a drawing on request, as opposed to my usual hotel lobby or coffee shop drawings made in a state of spur of the moment inspiratipn.
he sat absolutely motionless for as long as it took me to make the drawing, and when i showed it to him he was enthusiastically positive; so i guress i overcame my caution about making a drawing on demand!
before leaving the gallery, he gave me a copy of the major greek newspaper kathimerini, where there’s a beautiful article by nikos vatopoulos about me and the exhibition. i’ll translate it for you when i find time in our busy athens schedule.
11:15 AM: some important collectors will be coming to the gallery in 45 minutes, so i need to get ready & i’ll make this post brief until i have more time this afternoon.
my cousin mindy and her husband marc, who have been here for the past week, staying in the same hotel as us, just left an hour ago to fly back to new york. we had a really wondderful time together! it was their first visit to greece, and i think they had a good experience, including attending two of dimitri’s plays at his theatre: poreia.