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19 Jan 12 23:06

That sure looks like it was an interesting show. Nice space too. Has El Club de Madrid got up to any more activities following that significant event? I see Maria's and Karen's work in the photos. Did you really leave your third club member out of the exhibition?

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21 Jan 12 11:18

Well, from what I remember the disaster of ap in Trapani to have been, at least some good seems to have come from it (as indicated in your SLOG). Maybe I should get onto Antonio for a second attempt? - but a second attempt a lot more controlled (and financed up front - as I don't have any more money to underwrite costs) this time. Actually I'd be extremely reluctant to do anything like that again. However, it does appear to be important for artists to come together for some sort of collective endeavour, as El Club de Madrid have demonstrated in this instance. Actually, I've been thinking lately that ap is really a site for just a core group of 4-6 artists (and even they are becoming less involved as the years pass) - Xagorari, Kruse, Schmidt, Kagan, sometimes Leventhal. Other than Arnold, all of you met in Trapani (and even Arnold had the good sense to go visit Hillel at home in Toronto), so it seems face-to-face meeting is important. Nevertheless, I've got to look to ways to expand on this tiny group in order to avoid ap disintegrating through lack of real purpose and dwindling individual contribution to comment and documenting the art process. As you know, I was ready to close down artprocess after the Trapani experience, and figured I'd just count it as a worthwhile experiment while it had lasted. A few messages of support made me decide to keep it online, nevertheless I avoided developing the site for years afterwards. I'm now beginning to think that it may be important to maintain as many websites for artists made by fellow artists (as opposed to art websites provided by the art business) as possible, a sort of independent artists' platform, and that maybe ap still has a part to play in this context. As for me, I've been enjoying living alone in a tumbledown thatched cottage in rural Ireland for the past year [LINK]http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=ladys+island+wexford&sll=32.403922,-80.674072&sspn=0.076524,0.130978&ie=UTF8&hq=ladys+island&hnear=Wexford,+County+Wexford,+Ireland&t=h&layer=c&cbll=52.20997,-6.376983&panoid=PDh1eHMJtRtb2TrDSHgk6w&cbp=12,186.97,,0,4.7&ll=52.210001,-6.376874&spn=0.000925,0.003862&z=19[/LINK]. It would make a cute little gallery one day.