Paintings Below Zero in Ontario: 2/25/07

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Monday, February 26, 2007

We're finished with Paintings Below Zero in Ontario. If you want to see the complete adventure, scroll all the way down to the right under Archives and click on 12/03/ 06.

Lots of interest: Chicago is in the works for 2008.

Meanwhile: my sister has put this photo on her screensaver

and we hear from friends: Julie, one of our docents who took some paintings home with her and then went to Florida to thaw. On her return, they're still standing! :

: Name: Caitlin; Location: Roberts Creek, British Columbia, Canada

Graduate of Fine Arts, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, with a double major: French & English. Writer for Mattel Toy Co, as well as CBS and NBC radio in San Francisco. Dropped out to become an actress/playwright. (See fatsalmon.ca for more info on my work, esp feature film Singing the Bones)

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Gord Halloran, the guy in the red Olympic Winter Games jacket, now we're calling him The Don. Nice guy from a big family! The master mind artist. The reason we're all here on this adventure. An athlete who excels, he says this effort is like a game, you have to concentrate to the exclusion of all else until you succeed. Loves to 'throw' for leftover amounts of food at supper.

JC D'Almeida works as the head carpenter at The Arts Club Theatre and he can build just about anything. This time he's our on-site Production Manager, no small feat now that we're doing two gigs which open within a week of each other.

Jaz Halloran, Core Crew & recent graduate Emily Carr College of Art & Design. An essential part of our core crew Jaz does double duty in design after hours: website, artbook on the Italy 2006 installation, invitations & biz cards. Wacky guy with many accents and ability to elicit an instant guffaw.

Erik Olson, Core Crew & graduate of Emily Carr College of Art & Deisgn. Is best known for his sense of colour, but now operates loud equipment as well. Easy to laugh and self- confident, he's the one everyone bets will get the gal, whenever she passes by. Invented "Chart of Shame" and "The Don." Allergic to potatoes & chocolate.

Al Burns, ace photographer and vegetarian from Roberts Creek; photographed the artwork at Fenestrelle, including close ups of the ice which Gord used to create the images from the Torino paintings. This time his wife, Sally accompanies.

Pascale Thibodeau, our lighting designer. She seems to know her stuff. She's a great cook/vegetarian and is a detail person, with some experience in legal matters. She rewrote her entire contract just to get it right. Good natured, speaks French if coaxed!

Marielle Camozzi. 2nd crew. We've known her since she was 8, a longtime friend of Jaz and Tim. A versatile and easygoing worker, she has proven her mettle as an artist: Gord sent her to Niagara on the Lake as the only artist to place new pieces on the work there. She's a team player and a diplomat. Also a wicked dancer and cleans up well - a little red lipstick and she's Glam.

Tim Furness. 2nd crew. Sense of humour, hard worker with know-how to build stuff. Took to the melting torch with a passion. A world traveler, he fits in well, is quick-witted and fun to be with. Supervisor material. Considers himself a ladies man and serious competition to Eric.

Andrea Hildebrand. 2nd crew. An artist, a sculptor, creator of beautiful things in ceramics. Hard worker, competent. Has an art opening the same day as our opening! A balancing influence on 'the young guys'.

Art Sutherland, owns a refrigeration company in Victoria, but is mostly on the road, installing refrigeration systems. He and Bosco re-fitted the plates.

Bosco, our refrigeration technician, hails from Granada, Nicaragua. Fluent in spanish, easy to be with, an all around good guy.

The legendary Mike Brisbin.

Hayley Anna Lewis, the youngest crew member, serves, from San Rafael, California as our mascot, our inspiration, our joy. She was born in November and was the first to make Gord a grandpa! She reminds us that we have to take it one day at a time, and smile at the dreams while we're at it.

Caitlin Hicks, that's me. I was a playwright and performer in a former life. Also a PR person. I'm into Sales, have sold just about everything Gord has created since I met him. My big family roots gave me what some would call a 'bubbly' personality, others, 'neurotic and high strung'. Now I'm a slave to the project, and an addict for time on the internet. Never dreamed I'd be happy to author a 'blog'. I'm not a great traveller, I tend to complain if I don't have my comforts, including Gordie, who is off on a mission like I've never seen.

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