The Business-ee Business of Business Cards

Lately, I’ve been getting to my studio at cSPACE only to find nearly all of the business cards I leave out have been taken. When I leave for the day, I put out more, and the next day I come in, and they’re gone. How exciting! I wonder how long it will be until the phone starts ringing?

The mystery was solved yesterday.

A small but mighty group of kids from the Montessori school downstairs were on an art walk and stopped to look at the photography exhibit. The exhibit is a series of photographs by my friend Kate Ware—saturated and very colourful macro nature photography.

I could hear the teacher just outside my door, asking the kids, “Which is your favourite picture?”

“I like the dragonfly one,” a tiny voice replies.

“Why do you like that one?” the teacher asks.

“Cuz of its weird eyeballs,” the tiny voice explains.

“I like the flowers because they’re pretty,” another voice replies.

“What do dragonflies taste like?”

“You probably shouldn’t eat dragonflies,” the teacher explains.

Several small voices were also excited about my stash of cards, “Can we please have some cards?” Then another young voice says, “Tim got more cards than me.” Ever the peacemaker, the teacher explained that they could each have one card, but only one.

“Why do you like this card?” the teacher asked her group.

“It has tentacles!” “It’s pink!” “It’s an octopus!” “What do octopuses taste like?”

Then I heard the small stampede rumble away and down the stairwell. I poked my head out of my door and saw, yep, all the cards were gone. It’s given me an idea for a new set of cards. What if I made 9 different backs that make a complete picture when they’re put together? This way, when the teacher tells the students they can only have one card, they will need to all work together and join their cards like a puzzle.

How about a giant pink octopus with lots of suckers holding a crayon or something?