Karen Joan Topping, Joke Pops, C-print, 13"x13", 2008.

12 x 12 x 100 Chautauqua Benefit Show The show is finally posted - how awesome! Someone bought my piece, a photo called Joke Pops. Yay! I was so curious to see who sent work - I guess most of the people who participated are recent residents, I didn't recognize them. With what, like 40+ residents every summer there have been boatloads, I mean boatloads, of aspiring artist through there in the past 19 years. (I was there - yikes - 1990-1991.) I recognized only two other contributers - Jenny Walton (who is of course my neighbor here in DC) and Polly Martin who teaches at CI. Wow - wonder if I will ever get to go back?

All the best to you Don and Lois Kimes! Thanks for the show and thanks for the 19 years of art lovin' joy and pain, which has thankfully been mostly joy that I dare say started for me because of you!