ELARA'S POV
Claire had curated it independently, which was the point. I'd given her full autonomy after the opening and she'd used it well, assembling a show around four Pacific Northwest artists that drew on both the Canadian and American sides of the region's contemporary scene.
I flew up for the opening night.
Damien came. James and Maya drove up from Seattle where Maya had been spending increasing amounts of time, enough that she'd started keeping a bag at James's apartment, which she mentioned to me with the studied casualness of someone trying not to make it a big deal.
The opening was full. Not the performed fullness of people attending because they should but genuine interest, collectors mixed with working artists mixed with people who'd come because of the public day in May an
