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Now, I think of it as a gallery.

Even a door.

I kept my own work in a closet. Sketches on napkins. Poems written in the notes app at 2 a.m. Polaroids of boys I was too scared to kiss. Crumpled, hidden, gathering dust. gallery gay blog

The thing about a gallery is that it’s never finished. You don’t open and then close. You keep creating. You keep hanging new work. Some nights, you have to take down an old painting because you’ve outgrown it. Some nights, you just sit on the floor in the middle of the room, surrounded by the mess of your own history, and cry. And that’s okay. That’s curation. Now, I think of it as a gallery