You talk ecstatically
about your future
vagina. (Insert my
response here.)

Interrogative sentence:
How can you sound the same when you’re not?

I had the privilege of attending the C.A.V.E. gallery’s opening reception on January 9. The new exhibit kicking off the year 2010 is titled “Urban Confluence”. The gallery hosts a cozy and intimate space filled with some of the best pieces of artwork that I have ever seen integrated in one room. It had everything from photos, to paintings, to drawings – all astounding to look at!

Like a hologram, you have to approach Los Angeles from just the right angle, or it appears to be a flimsy nothingness. This is why housing prices here never really hit bottom; if real estate is all about location, and that location exists only in your mind, then Los Angeles is perpetually located in the hottest market. So where is here, in a city based on imagination? If you accidentally fall asleep and forget to project your own reality, does it all vanish overnight?

“The Indians are circling the wagon.”
“The rich buy art and keep prices inflated.”
“We’ve been sold down the river by big money.”
“The social safety net is dismantled- its a house of cards.”
Billy Shire fired off these warnings as he held court in his office at the recent Billy Shire Gallery opening reception for artists Tony Fitzpatrick and Chris Mars.

Adam Szymczak was born in the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty Seven. He was raised in a quaint New England town, and studied English at Suffolk University. He has always drawn and doodled, but only recently became truly interested in it. His comic book fury can be witnessed at: http://www.goodshowsir.com.