I will add text to these photos tomorrow. For now, I am just going to post them and go to sleep!
The first day I drove in Manhattan was also the first day that I drove a minivan. It is surprisingly hard to find gas stations in Manhattan- you really have to make it a destination, not just a place you pass by...
JEM, the fabric store across the street from the Gods Behaving Badly offices. This is definitely a fabric store with some personality.
Over the weekend, there was a street fair on Broadway. After listening to La Bamba for hours on end because the stage was literally under my window, I went downstairs to check it out. This here is the tea and spices lady!
I took myself to MAD (The Museum of Arts and Design) in Columbus Circle. I really liked this museum! It is quite small but had a very interesting collection. The photos above and below are of a mini exhibit on the outside of the building. This little hole in the wall is about two inches tall. The artist made a sort of miniature panorama out of clay and other fibers- look at how real it looks! And how strange to be peering into a tiny hole in the side of a building!
Children's clothes made of nails in MAD. One interesting thing about this museum is that they have artists working in an open studio, kind of like putting the artists on display as an exhibit in and of themselves...
Kimono made of cotton inspired by painting. Read below.
Really beautiful installation of cobalt blue butterflies on a mustard skeleton of an airplane. I've always been interested in sculpture / installation.
Necklace made of different natural materials in the same color family- whether is be a beetle, carbon powder, beetles, or other mineral and pigment powders.
The most beautiful of all...installation of bone flora overgrowing a gold filigree frame.
Also one of my favorites- can you believe this "orchid" is made of bone? Don't you now want to visit the MAD?
Incredible glass causes shapes to hover in thin air (or thin glass. ha.). I think in my future I will be a glassblower / sculptor. That sounds perfect.
More glass and ceramic! Can you believe?
Another ceramic installation...inspired by French pastoral scenes depicted in wealthy homes, yet each one tells a story that slightly mocks what it resembles.
Now this probably took a long time to bead.
It didn't come out very well but this is a collage. Wow!
Hmm, interesting concept- artist as jeweler. I like the idea of jewelry being personal sculpture. I can see where my future as a glassblower/sculptor may be heading.
New York at dusk after rain.
Trying to get on a train at Times Square.
New York food cart. And they had...chestnuts!!! That means it must be fall! What can be more autumnal than roasted chestnuts from a streetcart on a cold sunny day?
What? NYU kids get their own shuttle bus around SoHo? Hmm.
