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I had to go to Crystal City because I was meeting with someone who was staying at one of the area hotels regarding a possible work opportunity, which I’m not going to go into here. I went out despite the fact that I was still struggling with that chest cold I caught the day after going to the Capital Pride Festival. I took a bunch of cold medicines before I left so I wouldn’t go off on a coughing fit while I was talking with that person. I haven’t been to Crystal City since I made my one and only visit to the now-defunct TechShop makerspace back in 2016.
So I walked through the Crystal City Underground, where I was reminded at how the walking tunnels looked so white and sterile.
I eventually reached the area near where the ill-fated TechShop was located and I saw that someone attempted to add some color to those dull white walls. The pole on the right reads “Art Underground.”
There were some colorful tables and chairs along with various framed art pieces on the wall. At least this area broke up the monotony of those white walls.
The one thing I haven’t seen on previous visits is that there is now a public library located underground called Connection Crystal City.
You can tell I shot this next photo during Pride Month because of the rainbow flag that’s draped in the background.
There’s even an art gallery known as Gallery Underground. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to look inside because I needed to arrive at my appointment in time.
I walked past a gift shop that was selling what I think is the tackiest, ugliest souvenir featuring President Donald Trump that I’ve ever seen. In a way, that coffee mug and card deck matches perfectly with the boorish tacking behavior of Donald Trump and his administration. (There has been so much drama going on in DC that I would have to write several separate blog posts detailing everything. Just looking at Donald Trump’s Twitter feed provides a glimpse as to the insanity that has been going on in DC ever since he moved into the White House.)
Even though I did the bulk of the walk underground, every now and then there were skylights that provided a window on the outdoor sky.
I walked the length of the Crystal City Underground until I reached the end and I had to walk the rest of the way outdoors. I passed a bunch of late spring flowers in full bloom.
As I was walking outside I realized that soon the landscape of the Crystal City area will change because Amazon is building its new HQ2. It’ll be interesting to see what this area will look like once that new HQ2 is built.
My meeting was held in the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel. There was a conference going on called the M-Enabling Summit, which was about improving technology for people with disabilities.
I saw some of the booths both before and after my meeting but I was too sick with that chest cold to spend much time looking at everything. After the meeting I rested in the lobby where I saw this really cool wooden chess set that the hotel made available to its visitors.
I ended up taking the hotel shuttle back to the Crystal City Metro station. I had to go to the underground mall next door so I could go to the bathroom before I boarded the subway train. On the way to the Metro I saw that the Schakolad Chocolate Factory had this large inflatable Uncle Sam outside its door in preparation for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday.
Last year I attended a networking event at TechShop, a giant makerspace located in Crystal City, Virginia.
This place was literally a makerspace on steroids. It was very large and it was filled with the latest top-of-the-line equipment that members could use, such as this machine.
TechShop definitely had more resources than the local makerspace in my own neighborhood (which is run as a non-profit on a very shoestring budget). The only reason why I never joined TechShop is because its monthly member fees were very expensive. (I don’t remember the exact fees but I think they cost at least $150-200 per month.) Had the fees been more affordable, I definitely would’ve joined and tried going there at least twice a month.
Today I learned that TechShop has abruptly filed for bankruptcy and closed all of its locations nationwide. It’s too bad that this happened because it was an amazing place to see in person. I still remember the member who was building his own personal airplane and that plane was on display as a work-in-progress in the middle of TechShop.
I only hope that this member managed to finish his plane before TechShop closed for good. (From what I’ve read online, it looks like TechShop didn’t even provide any advance notice to its members before it closed down.) You can check out more photos I took during my one and only visit to TechShop right here.
One evening I decided to attend a networking event on the emerging Creative Class that was held at the large makerspace known as TechShop in the Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia. While I was riding the Metro to the Crystal City stop, I noticed these dramatic clouds forming over the Potomac River so I took this next shot. The window was dirty, which I couldn’t do anything about, but this next photo shows the 14th Street Bridge along with the Washington Monument located at the far right. The dome structure next to the Washington Monument is the Jefferson Memorial.
There was a reason for al those storm clouds: It started to rain after sunset. Between being on the Metro and being in Crystal City, I was underground through most of it so I didn’t have to use my umbrella until after I arrived in the parking lot of the Greenbelt Metro station as I was returning home.
I got off at the Crystal City Metro station and I immediately went inside the adjacent shopping mall known as the Crystal City Underground, which is named because of its subterranean location. The Crystal City area was once envisioned as a place where one could live, work, and shop without ever having to go above ground. The theory was that anyone living in one of the nearby apartments could just take the elevator to one of the underground tunnels and walk to one of the other buildings to work then walk to the underground to eat at a restaurant or shop either after work or on the weekends. I haven’t been in this area since the 2012 Artomatic, which was held in one of the nearby buildings. There are a few nice stores but most of the merchandise is pretty expensive, which is why I normally don’t shop there. The underground architecture is pretty interesting.
The next photo shows one of the many mall entrances that leads to a set of steps for the visitor to walk down.
I focused mostly on this chocolate shop I don’t recall seeing before known as Schakolad Chocolate Factory. This stores sells all kinds of handcrafted chocolates in a variety of shapes.
I purchased this chocolate five dollar bill there. It was made from dark chocolate and it tasted very good. I ate it along with a light dinner I purchased from one of the fast food places. (The event I went to served food so I didn’t eat a large dinner that night.)
The one other place I found interesting was this bar and restaurant known as King Street Blues, which seems to have a New Orleans-themed decor. I didn’t have much time to take too many pictures because of the event I was going to plus the place was crowded with people who stopped by after work. If I’m ever in the area again I’m definitely going to make this place one of my destinations.
I finally arrived at TechShop. I had heard about this place from people who’ve been there for the last few years and I have to admit that it’s very impressive and very big with some nice decorative touches.
The event itself was held in a side room. There were a series of three panel discussions plus there were networking opportunities between the panel discussions. The next photo shows one of them.
There were also opportunities to tour the facility between panels, which I took advantage of. TechShop is a makerspace that’s filled with the latest equipment for anyone who wants to make anything as long as he/she pays a monthly fee to use the facilities. There are all kinds of machines for all kinds of making ranging from welding to fashion design to woodworking to making musical instruments.
Someone is currently working on his own personal airplane to fly in and the body of the plane (sans wings) was on display as a work in progress.
If I ever have an idea for something that needs to be mass-produced, I definitely will go to TechShop to work on the prototype for my idea after I use Kickstarter or IndieGoGo to raise the needed funds for both the monthly fee and any needed supplies.
UPDATE (November 15, 2017): Sixteen months after I made my first and only visit to the Crystal City location, TechShop abruptly filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors at all of its locations across the country.
I need to find a different title than “daily sketches” because I have completely thrown by the wayside my New Year’s resolution that I would create one new sketch each day. I quickly learned that working on daily sketches each day takes time from other arts and crafts projects that I’m working on as well as other things that I should be doing (such as cleaning the house). My “daily sketchbook” effort really became pathetic when I made only one new sketch in the entire month of June—and that one was in response to the horrible shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
This past month I managed to churn out three sketches, starting with this one. I was inspired to create this sketch after hearing the news about a bullfighter matador in Spain named Victor Barrio who was recently gored to death by his bull opponent in the ring. His death was shown live on Spanish television and he is known to have been the first matador killed during a bullfight in over 30 years.
I feel bad for the bullfighter’s family because I know that dealing with a loved one’s sudden and unexpected death is such a shock. But I have zero sympathy for the late bullfighter himself because he was participating in a so-called “sport” whose advocates call it “sheer beauty and artistry” when all it really entails is some man slowly torturing a bull to death with spears while waving a red cape and shouting “¡Olé!” I’ve never understood what was so great about bullfighting, especially when I took Spanish in college and one of the chapters in the class textbook dealt with words and phrases related to bullfighting. I remember the instructor in that class admitted that she personally didn’t like bullfighting either. (She originally came from Cuba, a nation with no bullfighting tradition.) That bullfighter would still be alive had he picked a different occupation that’s less dangerous and deadly. Bullfighting is one so-called “tradition” that needs to go away along with other so-called “traditions” like female genital mutilation and slavery.
Later in the month I did this drawing full of gears of many colors. I had gone to an event at this makerspace located in Crystal City, Virginia known as TechShop and its logo has the letter “o” shaped like a gear. I just took that gear idea and elaborated it further with a bunch of interconnected gears. It was something I did really quick and it shows. (If I was doing a professional drawing, I would’ve done it using a 2H pencil first while erasing and refining it until I got it just right. Then I would’ve traced over it with ink.)
For the last drawing I did in the month of June, I went back to Rory’s Story Cubes. I mixed the Prehistoria and Enchanted sets together and this drawing was the result.
Yesterday I spent what would’ve been my wedding anniversary (had my husband not suddenly run away from home three days after Christmas last year and has avoided me and most of our friends since) at Artomatic. I signed up as a volunteer for the five-hour Friday afternoon shift. I had hoped to serve on a floor I hadn’t visited yet so I could see the art while walking around making sure that the visitors adhered to the rules and behaved themselves in general. However other people had their hands up before I had the chance to spring for what I wanted. I ended up being placed on trash duty where I would be assigned with a partner to go on all the floors and empty out any overflowing trash.
Except my original partner balked at doing that duty because she said she had allergies. Another person walked into the Artomatic office on the third floor and she ended up being partnered with me on the trash duty. Ironically my original partner would’ve had nothing to worry about because there wasn’t any overflowing garbage that had to be emptied the entire afternoon. In fact, my partner and I ended up doing little more than to make sure the trash bags were over the rims of the garbage because there weren’t a lot of visitors.
It was pretty quiet all afternoon. We decided to start on the 11th floor and work our way down as we toured the garbage. It turned out that my partner hadn’t been back at Artomatic since the installation of her own work so everything was new to her. By that point I had toured all except for the 1st, 2nd, and 6th floors so I ended up waiting for my partner while she was seeing the art. In the meantime I spent some time taking a few photos of Crystal City as seen from the windows of the upper floors at Artomatic.
The only really exciting thing happened on the 9th floor when I saw a bird suddenly fly from out of nowhere. At first I thought I was hallucinating until I got to the direction where the bird flew and saw it fly again. The bird somehow got inside the building. How it got in was a total mystery because the building is one of those modern office building where the windows can’t be opened and I don’t recall seeing any gaping holes in the walls or ceiling. When my partner called the office about that bird later on, we learned that apparently a family of birds had settled in the Artomatic building. We decided to let the birds be and continuted on our quest for any overflowing garbage.
Eventually my partner got a call on her cell from the office. Another volunteer was joining us (she had arrived late because she got on the wrong Metrobus) so my partner had to tell the office where we were currently located. (I think we were on the 8th or 7th floors, I don’t remember exactly.) Once the third person joined us we continued our tour of the Artomatic building while looking at the art.
In our quest for overflowing garbage, we eventually managed to reach the 6th floor. Here are a few words about both the 5th and 6th floors. Originally Artomatic was supposed to have all 11 floors of the former Department of Defense-owned building in Crystal City to be filled with art. During the site selection phase back in April, we were told that the 5th and 6th floors were being temporarily closed off and they were going to be used as overflow for any late-registering artists later on. Well, apparently Artomatic didn’t get as many artists as they hoped so the organizers decided to close off the 5th floor entirely. Anyone who tries to enter the 5th floor either by elevator or by stairs would be greeted with something like this.
For the 6th floor the organizers decided to try something experimental. It would be known as the “Art Reactor” floor and the general public would be invited to draw or paint on any of the walls on that floor. People could bring their own art supplies from home or purchase them from the Artomatic store. The only medium that was prohibited was spray paint. Otherwise, it was anything goes. I hadn’t seen that floor yet and my other two partners hadn’t either so we eventually made our way to the 6th floor. Imagine our surprise when we reached the 6th floor and found this sign.
The one lone volunteer who was assigned to make sure people stayed away from the 6th floor said that she heard that the organizers had shut down the entire floor last week because of problems with vandalism and people hiding on that floor past closing time. She even pointed out one such example of the vandalism—someone tried to pull the wallpaper away from the wall.
It’s too bad that a few assholes had to ruin it for everyone else because people did produce some tremendous work while it was still opened.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the organizers never attempted anything like this at any future Artomatics.
So we went down to the 4th floor in an effort to find any overflowing garbage that didn’t exist. One of my partners got a call on her cell phone from the office. We were instructed to go back to the top floors, take any chairs currently in the hallway by the elevators and put them in the areas where there is a stage or a lounge. So we did that and we spent the last hour and a half of the afternoon shift doing that until 5 p.m.
With that shift, I have now completed my minimum required three five-hour shifts for Artomatic 2012. I decided to celebrate by walking over to the nearby Sbarro’s for a quick slice of pizza. I decided to kill some time by seeing the art on the 2nd floor since I hadn’t been there yet and my partners and I never reached that floor during our shift. I was only able to see part of the floor because I decided to check out a workshop at 7 p.m. and I was already pretty tired from doing all that walking during my volunteer shift.
At 7 p.m. I headed back to the Utrecht Art Room on the 8th floor where there was a free workshop on making your own stencils. We had the choice of either making one free-form or we could use one of the sample drawings available. I decided on the latter because my mind was too tired to be totally creative by that point. I picked a hummingbird and here’s the result that I shot with my smartphone camera after I got home. This is the actual stencil itself.
This is my first attempt at using my new stencil with acrylic paint.
It looks pretty decent. In fact I’m thinking about buying a blank t-shirt from one of the arts and crafts stores in the future and make myself a hummingbird t-shirt using that stencil and fabric paint. But that’s going to have to wait until after Artomatic is over.
Yesterday I headed straight over to Artomatic after church. I decided to attend this workshop titled “Positive Art Therapy.” The main part of the workshop was that each person chose one piece of construction paper that was available in a variety of colors. All of the paper had a blank circle in the middle. One of the workshop leaders gave us this guided mediation before we began where we had to visualize someone whom we really care about. That someone could be a friend, a relative, a child, a neighbor, or even a pet. Then we imagine that someone special being safe and loved.
After that guided mediataion we got to work with our colored paper with circles in the middle. We could use either colored pencils, oil pastels, or chalk pastels. We could also use stencils if we weren’t sure about our drawing talents. We had a choice of either sticking to the boundaries of the circle or draw beyond the circle borders but, either way, we had to fill the circle.
I picked a sheet of yellow paper. When the workshop leader mentioned that we could use a pet as someone we really cared about, I began to think about Spike. During the drawing phase, I wen through my photos of Spike in my iPad and found this photo of Spike lying in his plastic tunnel that became my inspiration.
Here is what I came up with.
Spike loves to spend lots of time in his tunnel when he’s awake. I think it’s because he feels totally safe there and he can relax and not worry about someone bigger than him trying to hurt him. I volunteered my drawing to be passed around to the other workshop participants.
I learned that Positive Art Therapy is different from traditional Art Therapy because the idea is to find something you love or are grateful for and highlight that in your drawing instead of focusing only on the negative. All in all it was a pretty interesting workshop.
I arrived at the Artomatic building a bit early before the workshop began so I decided to check out another floor full of art. I had already done the 4th, 9th, and 11th floors. So I decided to visit the rest of the art exhibits that are on my own floor.
Before yesterday, I had gone to the 10th floor only to put up and maintain my own exhibit. The only other exhibit on that floor I was familiar with was Foxymoron’s but that was because that exhibit shared the same room as mine. (It was also a happy coincidence that both exhibits sharing the same room dealt with photography of toys that also had a sly political satirical message to them.) So it was nice to be able to leisurly see other exhibits on the 10th floor other than mine and Foxymoron’s. (Foxymoron’s exhibit is a pretty nice one, by the way. You can check us both in room 166.) I basically spent yesterday touring the exhibits on the 10th floor until it was time for the start of the workshop on the 11th floor, attended the workshop, then returned to the 10th floor to view the rest of the exhibits.
At one point I came across these two noise making exhibits that were literally across from each other. They were both interesting on their own level but the only problem is that since they were so close together that there was lots of cross-noises. I don’t know if the artists involved intended their works to be so close together or not but the cross-noises were very distracting. I shot this short video to show you what it ws like.
All I can say is that I was glad that both exhibits were located far away from my own exhibit so visitors viewing my art wouldn’t get distracted by the competing noises coming from the two art pieces.
The only other photos I took during my time on the 10th floor was this muralist who’s doing a work in progress. She’s done something like this before at previous Artomatics. She basically takes a whole wall section, paints a giant mural on it while Artomatic is in progress, and continues painting until she considers it done or Artomatic ends—whichever comes first. Artomatic has only been open for one week and it looks like she’s making progress so far.
I’ll end this entry by providing a list of some of the artists on the 10th floor (other than my own and my roomate’s) whose work caught my eye.
A. Drauglis Furnituremaker: website, Flickr
eLIZabeth Floyd: website, blog
Gangplank Marina Slipholders Association
Mann Designs Custom Woodworking
I had a full day yesterday. In the morning I had a group of my friends from my Unitarian Universalist congregation come over to the house to help me with organizing my things. (I really appreciated the help, believe me.) Afterwards I made an appearance at a brief meeting regarding this special art show I participated in last month where I opened my home to the general public. It was more of an informal meeting where we discussed what worked and what didn’t worked and what can be changed next time. After that meeting I headed over to the Metro where I made a return trip to Artomatic.
Last night I went to the Artists Social that was held on the 9th floor of the Artomatic building. I arrived a few hours early just so I would have the chance to check out the rest of the 9th floor before the event.
This two-sided sculpture really resonated with me because of the last five months of my personal life. Like many of the other exhibits at Artomatic, the artists behind this piece have no website that I can link to and one of them can only be reached online via e-mail at bardia@ebardia.com.
This exhibit on unrequited love also resonated with me because I currently have an unrequited love with my separated husband. The artist, Melba Davis, didn’t provide a website that I could link to but she left her e-mail address melbadavis00@gmail.com.
This poignant dedication to a son who died in 2008 of a heroin overdose at age 21 really resonated with me since I know what it’s like to suffer a serious loss. Granted my husband isn’t dead yet but his personality seems to be a shadow of his former lively self and I can’t do anything about it, just like that artist couldn’t do anything to save her son from heroin. (The artist, Teri Phillips, didn’t provide a website that I could link to.) I really admire her for her ability to build an exhibit around her deep loss. I briefly considered something similar regarding my strained marriage but I just couldn’t because I’m still too mired in my current drama and doing art around it would just upset me at this time. I just felt more comfortable with doing the Occupy the Dollhouse exhibit instead.
Located near the Peeps area is this strange display of a blow-up sex doll being covered by yellow bunny Peeps.
I visited the main Peeps area where the winners and runners-up of The Washington Post‘s annual Peeps diorama contest are currently displayed. Like the theater on the fourth floor, this one is also named after Carl Cordell, who passed away last year at age 60.
In some ways, this is an even more appropriate tribute to the man than the theater because he was a very prolific Peeps diorama artist whose work was frequently among the finalists, as shown in this short video that I shot at the 2008 Artomatic in Washington, DC.
The Carl Cordell Peeps Place has a shrine that features items associated with Cordell’s life.
This exhibit, called Creating Wei, is devoted to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei.
The Nyan Cat Internet Meme as Art.
Finally here is the Artists Social. I had hoped to meet up with one of my friends who is also currently showing at Artomatic but she didn’t show up. Neither did any of the people I met while serving on my previous two volunteer shifts. Instead I hung around while shooting photos of the gathering. It was a pretty decent turnout even if I didn’t know the people there that well.
Jolene Sugarbaker viewed a nearby exhibit at the Artists Social.
Hey, look, it’s Sgt. Pepper!
Near the Artists Social area one could literally read a large book.
One artist gave away his business cards to many of the Artists Social attendees. I took a photo of it because it’s such an interesting looking card. It belongs to Maluchi Enyi.
Around the corner from the lounge where the Artists Social was held, this aspiring DJ had to deal with putting on rousing dance tunes with no one dancing on the nearby stage.
By 9 p.m. I decided to leave for the Metro station. At that moment, the fire alarm suddenly went off, which resulted in the entire building being evacuated. I pulled out my smartphone and shot this video footage while I got out of the building. As you can see, it wasn’t a real-life version of The Towering Inferno.
I’ll end this entry by naming some of the artists on the 9th floor whose work has caught my eye.
Debby Taylor: blog 1, blog 2, Flickr
The Genizah Project: blog, Facebook
Jen-A-Fusion: website, Facebook
Liliane Blom: website 1, website 2
Rivka Leah: ReverbNation, Etsy
Last Saturday I was totally booked with two very different events. First I had volunteered to cheer on the veterans who participated in the Soldier Ride that was put on by the Wounded Warrior Project and was held in Rose Haven, Maryland. I thought it would be a good way to give back to the community and I have relatives who were or are currently serving in the military. (One uncle and one cousin served in the Army. One nephew and another cousin are currently serving in the Navy. I also have a former brother-in-law who served in the Army for a few years back in the 1990’s and he was sent to the Balkans as a peacekeeper during the war in Bosnia.)
I also have empathy with those who can’t use their limbs any more because I suffered through a hip replacement surgery in 2008 and hip revision surgery in 2011 and I know what it’s like to be unable to move as much as you want because you’re in too much pain or the offending joint is too stiff and just won’t cooperate. I am grateful for the two surgeries because the alternative would’ve been to give up walking entirely.
So I woke up very early in the morning and made the hour-long commute so I would arrive just before the start of the Soldier Ride. I even managed to take a few photos with my smartphone camera.
Rose Haven is a very picturesque town on the Chesapeake Bay, which provided lots of lovely photo taking opportunity before the Soldier Ride began.
The participants in the Soldier Ride gathered together at the start of the ride.
There were different kind of bikes available to the veterans that catered to their disabilities.
The participating veterans do some warm up exercises before getting on their bikes.
And they’re off! The veterans begin the Soldier Ride.
My role was to cheer them on as they started their ride along with other volunteers. It was a pretty cool experience and I would do it again. (There’s a really good story about the Soldier Ride along with interviews with some of the participants on NPR’s site. There’s also a USA Today story about how the Soldier Ride’s participants were invited to meet President Obama at the White House. That’s great that they were given such an opportunity since they have sacrificed a lot for this country.) Unfortunately I couldn’t stay to cheer them as they reached the finish line two hours later because I had another appointment and I had to make an hour’s drive plus a Metro ride to my next destination. As I was driving away I came upon some slow traffic that resulted from the Soldier Ride. I took advantage of the stopped traffic to take a couple of final pictures.
I was able to make a turn on another road that got me away from following the Soldier Ride and I drove to the Metro station nearest my home then took the subway to Crystal City, Virginia. A few days ago I decided to take part in Artomatic 2012 so I registered online and I was given a scheduled orientation time of 1 p.m. on the same day as the Soldier Ride. It could’ve been worse, at least I wasn’t given any of the earlier orientation times that would’ve conflicted with the Soldier Ride.
I managed to arrive about 20 minutes early and I was directly herded into one of the earlier orientation sessions that was just starting. So I was able to finish the session earlier and I reserved a wall on the 10th floor for my exhibition. As I was leaving I took a few photos with my smartphone camera, which provides a bit of a preview of what to expect when Artomatic opens to the public on May 18.
Just a few feet from the Crystal City Metro station on South Bell Street there is an Artomatic banner pointing the way.
The building that will house the Artomatic event is located a block away from the banner.
Here are some pansies that are planted in manicured gardens outside the future Artomatic building.
UPDATE (January 28, 2016): In the nearly four years since I volunteered for the Soldier Ride, I’ve recently learned about the financial scandal involving the ride’s sponsor, Wounded Warrior Project. While I still don’t regret participating in the Soldier Ride back in 2012, I would volunteer for a similar event in the future only under one of the two conditions: 1) If it was sponsored by a different nonprofit that is more ethical and less lavish in its spending or 2) If the Wounded Warrior Project itself makes a sincere and easily verifiable effort at internal reform that addressed its lavish and wasteful spending.
R2-D2 Mailbox, Crystal City, Virginia, 2007
Digital photograph
Can be sized up to the maximum of 8.5 inches x 11 inches (22 cm x 28 cm).
In 2007 I took part in my first Artomatic show that was held in an office building in Crystal City, Virginia. I found this mailbox that was painted to resemble R2-D2 from the Star Wars movies located near the Artomatic building. I later learned that George Lucas (the original Star Wars creator) had teamed up with the U.S. Postal Service to come out with a limited number of R2-D2 mailboxes that would be displayed throughout the U.S. I took a few photos of that mailbox.
The following year, I took part in Artomatic once again (which had moved to the northeastern part of Washington, DC) and I decided to focus exclusively on my photography (instead of the mix of photography, drawing, and painting I had featured at Artomatic, 2007). By then the R2-D2 mailboxes had been dismantled so when it came time to select photos for that exhibition, I chose that one.
Sagittarius Dolly 
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