Post #193666 by 8FT Tiki on Wed, Oct 19, 2005 4:03 PM

My family and friends are great about our tikiness. As for the workplace, I never really say much about it. When I first started thinking about carving, I got some teasing at work. One guy kept saying that I would never actually do any carving and another was calling me "tikiwood". Of course I didn't listen to them but it made me decide to kind of keep it to myself. Now I work in a different building and I hadn't been talking about tiki there either. That is until this week when I participated in an exhibit of creativity held in one of our conference rooms. About 30 employees brought in things that they have created ranging from jewelry, painting and sketches, pottery, photography, quilts etc. Don't get me wrong, this was no craft show. This was good stuff.
Of course I took tiki. I chose my Pisco and the Frankoma War God as well as one other. I haven't received a lot of feedback but the exhibit just ended today. It was really cool to have some folks from the Creative Dept. at headquarters stop by. I always enjoy meeting and talking with them because they have that ability to look beyond the surface of things and I have so much more in common with them than the folks in my work area. In short, "THEY GET IT!" What a breath of fresh air that was for me.
I also learned from the exhibit that there are some very talented people who I pass in the aisles every day and never knew about their "hidden assets" . As far as I know, nobody was dissing my carvings but I wasn't in the room very much during the event. And you know, I don't even care if a lot of them thought it was a bunch of junk. If everybody loved tiki then everybody would have tiki and then we wouldn't have such a unique common bond as we do here on TC. A Terrible thought. OK, essay is complete, thanks for reading.