You Live Where? Georgia?
Regarding my life choices.
I'd like to think of this project as Instagram of the past. I'm going to post photos along with blurbs and maybe tell a little about myself.
This image is of Rustavi, Georgia, from a hill tens of kilometers away. I’ve been living in this country, Georgia, for nearly two years now. How did I end up here? I ask myself that question often.
I came here for fun in the beginning of 2022. I was working in real estate in Manhattan and hated it. I had just changed companies, from a tiny brokerage in Ridgewood with a great manager to a soulless office high rise in the city. I sold my car and booked a one way ticket to the other side of the world.
I landed in Tbilisi with no plan. I spent about a month wandering around. I thought about opening a coffee shop (luckily I didn’t). Instead, I opened an art gallery (even worse decision). Thus, in a basement on the corner of Kekelidze and Paliashvili Street, Dissolution was born.
I did everything wrong. Hired the wrong person, did the wrong marketing, surrounded myself with people who didn’t share my interests. I learned a lot about business, money and life. I put too much trust in people I barely knew. I just wanted to do something. I thought about quitting a thousand times. I did quit publicly, only to then become inspired a week later.
Okay, I didn’t do everything wrong. We had a few great exhibitions, one even sold out. We participated in Tbilisi Art Fair in 2022. I’ve sold some of my own work. I started a moderately successful import business. I discovered myself and my identity. I learned how to better screen people and how not to jump into things head first with strangers.
So, friends (and enemies), join me on this journey. More next week.