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What The Living Do by @mariehowe77. by @jenbekman

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6 months ago

Hi. (I miss you.) by @jenbekman

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8 months ago

Happiest of happy birthdays to my sweet Bean, Steve Sanders! Readers, he’s the bestest. by @jenbekman

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10 months ago

56! taken in Brooklyn Bridge Park by @jenbekman

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a year ago

Live from @20x200 HQ: art for everyone, en route to collectors ‘round the world. Our LDW sale ends tonight, so don’t sleep on it: enter code RENEW20 @ checkout for 20% off your order of $75+. (Code also works on already reduced items in our LAST CALL collection, which makes for maaaaaajor savings.) by @jenbekman

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@brooklynbridgepark is an absolute treasure. taken in DUMBO, Brooklyn by @jenbekman

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Michael Bekman, on this day that would’ve been your 58th birthday, I name you. Love you + miss you, big brother.

Hope you’re somewhere out there soaking up all the love that’s coming your way, today and every day. by @jenbekman

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As promised, our 5+5 series is back! Today’s featured contributor is Emily Fischer (@haptician) the brilliant mind behind one of my favorite indie businesses, Haptic Lab (@hapticlab). Their gorgeous goods have long been my go-to gift for beloved babies and generous hosts. Their Solar System quilt is currently lying on my own bed and when I go fly a kite, it may well be one of their gorgeous creations I send dancing across the sky.

Emily is also a friend, and I cannot overstate how absolutely terrific it’s been to meet up for coffee and commiseration as we both attempt to steer our business babies through the currently-extremely-choppy economic waters. She also has a great Jason Polan story, an incredible kiddo and, of course, excellent taste in art. Read all about it below!

— Jen taken in DUMBO, Brooklyn by @jenbekman

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It’s Jason Polan’s birthday. Happy birthday, bud.

I’m back in Brooklyn now, but spent last weekend in the Bay Area. In many years previous, Jason would have come stay with us for the SF Art Book Fair and other shenanigans. We’d go for ice cream. Steve would make pizza in the backyard. “Nice leoparding!” Jason would comment, admiring the swirls of char on the bottom of the pie. Steve’s never been prouder. Jason would sketch at our dining table.

This year, we were hosting visitors from Germany. They were intent on seeing Fisherman’s Wharf, which lately seems to have a proliferation of magnet shops for some reason. There was a wall packed full of soft sculpture ones: bananas, donuts, hamburgers: all were nearly the size of a fist and discomfitingly squishy in your hand. I would have bought Jason the hamburger one, or at least sent him a goofy photo where I pretended to bite into it. A few doors down there was a shop with those mini versions of California license plates. The one emblazoned JASON jumped out at me immediately.

All this is to say that more than five years on, I still miss my friend so much. I still cry about him, and the unfairness of it all. I still have moments where I catch a glimpse of someone who I’m absolutely sure is him on the street, and feel my heart flush with the love I feel for him. I see things, or read things and want to call and tell him about it. I still do all these things, and always will.

It is something that will always be tinged with sadness, and loss, but over time it’s also transformed into something I (not a religious person) can only describe as holy. I feel a gratitude to have shared so much with him, to still have him so much with me. To be able to remember his voice, the exact way in which a certain tooth was a little crooked, the way his fingers curved as he held a pen in his hand to make a drawing. All the things he loved and hated, or was curious about. What a privilege to have known him so well, and to have wandered the world with him as much as we did. It wasn’t for long enough, but gosh, I’m so grateful to have had the chance to be alive with him, to love him and to be loved by him.

— Jen by @jenbekman

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5th of July greetings, collectors. Like most Americans, I’m not feeling particularly celebratory about our country these days, but I am grateful to have an extra weekend day to spend with the people I love and think on the “what can we do?!” about it all.

20x200’s current promo (with up to 40% off prints and frames!) has me wanting to make additions to the food-themed salon wall in our kitchen/dining area, pictured above in all its wonky glory. It’s a still-in-progress mix of OG 20x200 editions, originals from artist friends like (@jane_mount) and (@jasonpolan), a few contributions from my fella, finds from other sites like (@tinyshowcase), and of course an absolutely delectable mound of butter.

Dig it—there's plenty of food-themed art for everyone.

—Jen by @jenbekman

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a year ago

Spent a few hours in one of my favorite places earlier this week, with some of my favorite people. taken in McEvoy Ranch by @jenbekman

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Hey, New York. Had to share my new ‘do, even tho I’ve yet to master the art of the selfie. (And probably never will!) taken in DUMBO, Brooklyn by @jenbekman

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