I used to have my own gallery. Or rather me and my partner used to have one together. When I found the place I felt it was the most wonderful gallery I’ve ever seen. The couple that had the gallery was really nice and helpful and we felt we were part of the community.
Then one day, one of the owners wanted us to have an art show in the big gallery. We did, to help out. Our show had been scheduled for July, but since no one could make it in such a short notice we agreed to do it. There was so much to do before the show. Everything seemed too short notice, the advertisement, the textures and of course the music.
We even had to build a lot of the art pieces in the big gallery. But in the end we managed to finish it. The show was a success. We got interviewed by a journalist that the owners had arranged to come there. I was so happy. To have managed to fix it all in time and that the show itself turned out so good.
But after the show things begin to change. The show was going to be up for a month. Really soon one of the owners asked me if it was OK for us to remove parts of the show. I didn’t like it but of course I said it was ok. I was given a date when I had to remove it, but the day before that everything got dumped into my inventory.
I am home all day since i am on sick leave, so if it had been a change of plans then why couldn’t they have asked me to come in and removed it one day early? I felt thrown out. Maybe I was just being over sensitive, but that’s how I felt. What if parts have been lost when they sent it back? And I wanted to put them in the right folders if I’d ever use that art piece again.
In the end we spent less and less time at the gallery. It never felt the same after that. And when the rent was up and the art show taken down, we stopped paying the rent. We were planning to tell the owners, try to explain, but the minute one of them came online we got kicked out of the group. They didn’t say anything to us, and one of the owners took me off his friends list.
I don’t know what happened, but I do miss what we had at that gallery, at the community there. It’s still one of the most beautiful places in SL. The owners seemed to be a great couple. But what we had there is lost forever. I hope I’ll find something like that again.