#TBT – Absorbent Ideas Exhibition, 2009

by | May 1, 2015 | #TBT - Throw Back Thursday | 4 comments

A number of years ago I would reserve Saturdays for posting a ‘vintage’ napkin from back when I was drawing them for my daughters and putting them in their school lunches. I did that for a number of years but eventually started putting up other content on the weekends; stories, photos, etc.

Throw Back Thursday (Friday Edition)

Now Throw Back Thursday is a thing and I thought I would start posting some older drawings or other things from years past on Thursdays.  Of course I came up with this idea today, a Friday.  But I looked back and found these photos from 6 years ago yesterday (a Thursday) and decided I would post it anyway.

Absorbent Ideas Exhibition

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Double Shot Coffee, Tulsa, OK

 

I had an article in the Tulsa World published about the Napkins in early 2009.  The owner of Doubleshot, who knew of me because my daughter Chelsea had at one point worked there, had read the article and invited me to have a show of the napkins.

 

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Absorbent Ideas Exhibition

 

The show opened on April 29th, 2009, with the reception being a few weeks later in May.

 

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Postcard Invitation

 

You can see the progression in my napkin drawings by taking a look at the drawing on the postcard and the framed one below.

 

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I look back and realize how long it’s been since I’ve had an actual exhibition of the napkins and how different they are now.

I think it’s time for a new exhibition, don’t you?

 

 

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