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Low Tide Gallery has always been an extension of my front porch mentality. If I had the sidewalk space, I'd gather my friends around, and we could all play living room in the middle of Bridgetown. I'm not much of an entrepreneur; I'm not business-minded. But four years ago, I took the opportunity to fill a gap in a small-town space, a gaping hole that nearly every community suffers.
It's the gulf between creators and consumers, the cliff-edge that separates those who express from those who embrace. Every now and then, like Looney Tunes characters, an artist goes running out into the open. They cross their fingers and hope to make it to the other side without crashing to the bottom of the canyon.
I try to be the safety net for soft souls. These are folks who've made an incredible leap to overcome shyness, to get themselves out of their heads and before your eyes. This earns my respect, and it's something I want to honour. When I met some of my most popular artists for the first time, they each came in with a gentle weight of humility. They walked through the door holding something that mattered to them, an image from a feeling, a dream made flesh. It's up to me to share that with you.
My heart is on the line, too. Prints of my photos, books of my poems, the descriptions I scribble beneath each of these artist's works that you read here online – and in our daily conversations as well. But if I ever constructed a billboard calling strangers closer to becoming friends, it would contain nothing but a quote from the Ghost of Christmas Present: "Come in, and know me better."
– Steve Skafte
Low Tide Gallery
4 Queen Street, Bridgetown
HOURS: Mon-Fri, 11-5
Did the usual formal Thanksgiving Dinner the night before, w/the casual, super chill day of football and snacking on Thanksgiving itself. The cook was in a rush and flubbed using a fast enough aperture to properly capture these two handsome devils.
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