Oh i gotta tell ya my wacky connection story. I *love* Romeo Britto. I don’t recall how I ran across his stuff, but looked for everything i could find on the Net a few years back. I had forgotten he now lives in Miami (raised in a Brazilian slum). His art is so goddam happy and colorful and wonderful, it’s got such incredible life to it.

So in Miami I’m walking along Lincoln Road and look up and there’s the Britto art center. I wander in with my jaw open - I’m looking at real amazing original art! It’s so much better than the low quality images on my computer! So I start looking at the stuff that’s for sale at the back and this woman keeps appearing at my elbow to tell me stuff and I finally tell her how blown away I am that I’m there.

It turns out she and her husband are from Vancouver (where I’m from), her husband is his manager, they’ve moved to Miami but keep a house on Salt Spring Island - I spent a ton of time on the island next to it. And her husband does yoga. So we that this great totally unexpected connection. Talked about weather and how much we miss the mountains. It was wonderful. I ended up buying two cards. I absolutely loved the fish in a stand but it was $380 - ouch! Maybe someday :-)