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Thank you for coming to my solo exhibition, “Takafumi Ide / Life is fleeting; therefore, life is beautiful,” at AC Institute.

I was able to meet a lot of people who are not only art professionals, but also general audiences during the exhibition. As an emerging artist, it is important for me to talk to these visitors right now. Even only one comment on my work helps my next steps. Sometimes I get puzzled by a criticism, but still I think it helps my process to make art.

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Once an exhibition is closed, the art works need to be deinstalled.
I will update the process of deinstalling this exhibition next.

This week is the last week of my solo exhibition at AC Institute.  I was excited to have a solo exhibition in Chelsea after I got an email from the gallery curator, Joe DiPonio, in spring 2010.  Now it will end.  Thinking about myself…  “I could have done better than this somehow…,” that’s the feeling I always have after an event.  It probably becomes my motivation for next project.

Thank you for coming to my artist talk on January 13th.

I wondered how many people came to my talk.  Actually, there were not many, only a few people came on time.  AC Institute is a good venue and has a lot of friends and audiences, but I am an unknown artist and the inclement weather, so I expected this happened.  I remember when I had an artist talk in the Castle Gallery at College of New Rochelle, the original talk day was postponed due to the snow storm, and I gave my talk after the gallery decided to extend the exhibition.., it was February 2010.

After I finished almost one-to-one talk at AC Institute, people from other opening receptions came to the gallery. It was actually good, way better than I expected.  I gave some group Q&A talks. The audiences seemed like my work.  The gallery finally closed around 9 p.m. instead of 8 p.m.  Yes, it was good.