From the desk of Tim Doyle-
Back in February of 2012 I had my first solo art show at SpokeArt’s gallery in San Fransisco. The show was rather well received, and by the end of the show- just about everything was sold out. SpokeArt’s owner- Ken Harman, was kind enough to fly me and my father out for the opening. (My wife would have come, but our daughter was only 4 months old at that point- and babies don’t party as much as they should.) The reception was well attended, a lot of fun people came out and a great time was had.
My pitch for UnReal Estate last year was this-
“Unreal Estate” is a collection of locations that many of us know and have been to on a weekly basis at times, but we can never actually visit. These places are in our memories- transmitted and entrenched there through a cathode-ray tube. Some of us have been going to these places for decades- some of these places were taken from us, way too soon.”- Me, one year ago.
The next day, after the on-line drop, Ken took us out to dinner and said the scariest words I’ve heard in a while- “So, next year- Unreal Estate 2, right?” Needle drop. Scratch sound. Sad Trombone.
Not because I thought it was a bad idea- no- it was because the first show was a TON OF WORK and almost did me in the first time through. And would people LIKE the new stuff a year from then? That’s the problem with sequels- it’s always going to be compared to the original. Was I going to do a “Godfather 2″ or was I going to do a ‘The Two Jakes”? I had a list of prints from shows I WANTED to get to but didn’t have the time originally, and a list of other locations from shows that I had already done prints for. So the ideas were there… I agreed, shook his smooth yet masculine hand, and dove right in.
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