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sletia · Post by **sletia** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:37 pm

Who is the poor soul with the scorched cels? The whole gallery breaks my heart...

syan · Post by **syan** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:58 pm

I just checked out that gallery - I'm beyond words.

Sugarflower · Post by **Sugarflower** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:39 pm

OMG! That poor person!! What a sad loss in the art world as well.

I feel terrible for the owner.

ReiTheJelly · Post by **ReiTheJelly** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:46 pm

The gallery owner is very nice - I had an e-mail from her today explaining the damage to her cels in further detail. If something like this happened to me...I don't know what I would do. I hope she doesn't mind, but I'd like to share this photo she sent to me with y'all:

For people interested, I'd suggest browsing through her site. It's quite fascinating (once you get past the tragedy) how the cels handled the extreme heat, smoke and flames.

klet · Post by **klet** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:50 pm

I've been talking with the gallery curators (well, only with one of them, but the cels belonged to two sisters). Very, very sad.

Crystal Rose was their original gallery:

http://crystalrose.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp

EDIT: I just realized that I had read part of the message wrong. Apparently, only about half the cels on their old site were in the house that burned, so I suppose that is something, even if it is a small consolation.

kizu · Post by **kizu** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:42 pm

Yeah I browsed the entire thing, it's really sad to see all those nice cels damaged. I feel for the owners and I'm glad they still chose to show them.

Belldandy16 · Post by **Belldandy16** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:34 pm

i actually emailed her (before i saw this post) to offer my condolences for her beautiful collection!

she said she had a ten year collection that went!

aw man i feel so sorry for her!

kathpatty · Post by **kathpatty** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:46 pm

So very heartbreaking....I cannot begin to imagine their loss

cutiebunny · Post by **cutiebunny** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:23 am

My heart goes out to them as well. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to see any part of your collection like that.

majinuub · Post by **majinuub** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:22 am

Yea I saw their gallery and was litterally speachless. One of the biggest fears for cel collectors happens

. Browsing through the Utena section was just

.

animeobsessed · Post by **animeobsessed** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:05 am

majinuub wrote:Yea I saw their gallery and was litterally speachless. One of the biggest fears for cel collectors happens . Browsing through the Utena section was just .

I have had nightmares about this happening. I'm so sorry to hear it actually happened to someone.

Post by **sensei** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:02 pm

When our house was struck by lightning, I actually thought about grabbing two certain cel books on the way out -- but went for the cat instead. It does bring home just how transient any possession is, especially one-of-a-kind items like animation art. (I thought after things settled down about family photos and memorabilia that could have gone up as well.)

The cels are a sad loss -- but I'm sure that's only one side of a heartbreaking, stressful personal disaster. Thankfully, from what I understand, neither sister was hurt.

lcatino · Post by **lcatino** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:02 pm

It's terrible that they lost their cels and other possessions in the fire. I feel for them. It must be a very stressful time.

I'm glad that no one was hurt.

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:11 pm

noooooo!!!

http://inferno.rubberslug.com/gallery/i ... mID=247630

atleast some of the cels are semi-safe...

frozentime · Post by **frozentime** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:12 pm

I feel so bad for the two impacted by this. I can't imagine how I would feel if something like that happened to me, though I have fears about this kind of thing every time I leave for more than a couple of days. I'm glad that they are okay, and that not everything was lost.

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