Kontextmaschine

so i’ve had this print from an echo park gallery for a while and i decided to finally get it framed

look up framing places, there’s one down the street. it’s the closest to alberta so i’m like oh okay they must deal with a lot of hipster art

i didn’t consider what it meant to be a store on killingsworth at mlk

the aesthetic was like, pure middlebrow africana

big portraits of michelle obama on the wall

the stars of the la lakers

warplanes with proud tuskegee airmen in the foreground

egyptian tchotchkes everywhere

and me with my print of this wan pale girl and a cartoony buffalo in a pop-asian waterprint style

guy’s trying to suggest matte colors to compliment the print

trying to compliment a skin tone only a few shades off from the canvas

hilarious

good on that guy though, he made his shit happen.