There are benefits and detriments when entering the Altamont Fair’s fine arts / arts and crafts competitions.
Benefits – you can enter up to four images in the photography category, and you are not limited to size or dimensions (make ’em big or make ’em small, as long as they hang safely on the wall). You can also apply this logic to the Arts and Crafts category, in that there are dozens of possible categories and options for this discipline.
Detriments – if you enter the Fine Arts AND the Arts and Crafts competition, you have to drop your items off on TWO SEPARATE DAYS (Friday night for arts and crafts, Saturday afternoon for photography). Which means you make two trips to Altamont just to drop the stuff off. Then you visit Altamont on Tuesday (to find out how your stuff did), then you go back on Sunday (to claim the photography entries) and then go back on Monday (to pick up the arts and crafts materials).
In the grand scheme of things, it could be worse. I could be forced to park in a stone quarry ten miles away from the Fairgrounds.
Well, that being said, I chose what I thought would be my strongest four entries for this year’s Altamont Fair – plus a fifth entry in the Arts and Crafts section.
The four on the wall in the arts building are these four.
That is a mirror and glass “master print” of A CO Railfan’s Dream. And it’s hella heavy. Took two nails to hang that on the wall.
Speaking of two nails, this is an ultra-long print of Always Bet on Horse 6, another experimental film shot.
And while we’re at it …
There is The Shooting Star. And damn it, this picture HAS to get some love somewhere. It just HAS to.
And finally …
UP4014 at Linden Mill. It was either this one or my graffiti-etched Herbie Jr :v) Was Here image, and I figured I’d save Herbie for Altamont 2027.
And the fifth one … well, I couldn’t take a picture of it in the acceptance barn, but it’s this latch hook rug.
The plan for this rug is to show it at Altamont, and then afterwards take it to the big E and show it there.
Okay. Now let’s see how everything balances out. I won’t know until Tuesday evening how the artworks did. So if you arrive at Altamont before me, don’t tell me. Don’t snitch. 😀
Can’t wait to find out how they do.
All five of them.
Chuck The Writer 