Didn't want to leave Frank off the site since we did buy some beautiful art from him. He has partnered with 3 other young artists to open up 7ma y 60 Visual Arts Studio to display their work. He has made over 600 of these small pencil drawings. He tries to do one a day (they can take from 20 minutes to over 2 hours) and he considers them a journal. The notebook shows how he tracks his sales - since these are generally neither named nor numbered. The actual purchase process was pretty interesting. We set a time and he came to our hotel with the drawings. We met in the lobby and sat at the bar, checked the art and exchanged a big handful of cash (US dollars). We did this with another artist and other people on the trip also had exchanges going on at the same time. Struck me as very capitalistic, to say the least.
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