BOBBLE TIKI: BE CURIOUS >>>

If you’re anything like Bobble Tiki â€" you’re curious. You’re curious about ghostly mysteries in old buildings. You’re curious about cities teeming with forgotten and often culturally blasphemous histories. You’re curious about that enormous tree in Wright Park that has been there long before you were born and has stories of sex and revolution and lost dogs and time. See it?

If you’re not curious, Bobble Tiki urges you to change. Pick at a thread of curiosity then explore it. It does not have to be complicated. You simply begin to notice.

For instance, attend the Curiosities party Friday night at The Robert Daniel Gallery. Study the curious art by Jovier Ortega, Rik Garrett, Jeff Angell and -O-Design Studio. Eat the strange food. Drink the exotic liquid libations. Try to guess who’s underneath the curious costumes. You will begin to see the signs, understand the symbols â€" the divine winks â€" and realize there are enormous hidden worlds of belief and interconnected history just under the manufactured and carefully orchestrated surface of things.

Just saying.

[The Robert Daniel Gallery, Friday, Oct. 9, 8 p.m., $10, $5 before 10 p.m., 2501 S. Fawcett, Tacoma, 253.227.1407]