THE NIGHT WAS HOT! HAUTE! HAUGHT!

And so after spending a couple of days of cleaning up the construction dust, priming the walls, and hanging up the delicate artwork of collaborative artists Mark Jackson and Charlotte Webb...
Jackson Webb with TLV technical director, Denis Lagdameo
hanging artwork in the Small Gallery

At precisely 8:00PM on December 10, 2005, the lanterns were lit...
(Close up: Lamp of Reflection, 2005)

The installations were installed and the Living Room was ready to roll.
Top: Lamp of Criticism, 2005, installation view.
Bottom: Lamp of Reflection, installation view.

The evening started off rather well as guests sipped on the fabulously free-flowing Finlandia Cranberry Vodka (thanks Jobert and Fran Ribano) and nibbled on Cheese and Chocolate Fondue from the Old Swiss Inn. Some folks preened and posed for the camera...

While others let me catch them right where they were.

The topics of the evening's conversations ranged from geo-politics and the arts, to the intricacies of sado-masochism, lesbianism, and the current prices of electricity, gasoline, and fashion.

And as midnight rolled around, DJ Caliph8 arrived and spun. The art school kids of doom crowd showed up in full force and partied till the cows came home. All in all - for a rainy night in early December, I couldn't have asked for a better opening.
And if you are wondering why there aren't any names underneath the photos,

remember that this ain't the Philippine Tatler, Baby.
If you know the people in the shots then you do. And If you don't, well, it doesn't matter.

Hope to see you all at Jackson Webb's Artist's talk on December 19, 2005.
Monday, 6:00PM