Nov 16 was the opening of Marina Roy’s solo exhibition Dirty Clouds. Marina is my VISA 370 Animation prof, I was really excited to know that she was going to exhibit at WAAP! She has 80 paintings hanging at the gallery space, and there are being grouped into different sections. Her concept consists of matter and anti-matter, I took it as a nihilism approach.

I arrived at WAAP earlier that day and helped set up reception with lots of wines and cups. I was in charge of being a bar tender that night. The first visitor was my classmate Makiko, then some of my other friends came. I was really glad that they all came to visit, I started a circle of conversation and introduce them to each others. After a while I saw lots of UBC profs and TA came to the exhibition, also my favourite TA Matt. WAAP was full of people and some of them have to stay outside. Marina was busy talking to everyone and so much socializing going on. I was glad that this opening is not as intimidating as other ones I been to that, I didn’t get any sense of exclusion here. Instead, people are so open to have a conversation with each other. I was constantly serving wine for them, and I guess alcohol helps a lot to open people up. It was a fun night and we finished around 10 pm. Wil and Jeff took Jeffrey and I to Tacofino after opening was finished.