dayton is not in ohio

Both receptions last Thursday night went well. The Northpark U show was short and sweet. The show was Tim Lowly, Bob Erickson, Jin Lee, April Wright and myself. There was some very short mingling, a short slide presentation by each artist and then some more mingling. Particularly fun was the fact that the whole family got to come along…

Shortly after the slides we packed up and drove all the way across Chicago to Hyde Park in the south for the second opening. The main difference between the two receptions was that one was fairly calm, with rootbeer floats, and the second was less calm, with real beer, athletic competition and vegetarian burritos/tacos which I heard were really good and would have found out had I not just finished a quarter-pound of delicious “beef” from McDonalds.

The golf was fun. Some holes were more playable than others, but they all made for a challenging competition. My favorite hole by far was by my fellow grad student Matthew Dupont, consisting of an AstroTurf quarter-pipe with a hole halfway up the face. This was also the hole that I watched a little white-haired lady get about a 30 on before giving up. Not the best “golf” hole, but definitely the best work of art. Other highlights included the two, two-story holes, one of which had a secret passage for a chance at a hole in one that you can’t even see, and the other, a two-story putter that you use from upstairs to putt on the green below.

My hole turned out fine, and proved to be very popular with the kids… so much so that it was hard to play at times. They liked putting the balls in the holes and running after them to watch them come out the end. You could play an entire 18 holes just on my hole, my brother and I decided. As you can see below, I abandoned the ramp for a raised putting platform.