If you got the Money Honey
Mar. 9th, 2024 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sorcyressI think today has been a really good day, and I think a lot of that is because I went to an art museum and that turns out to be good for the soul or whatever.
It's also been good to have an intentional date day with Austin --I haven't gotten one of those in a while. We've had lots of our once-a-week-on-a-school-night dates, but that's all tired after work and having to get up early and not as fun. Today was a properly planned date --we went to the ICA after bells, and then came home to make a pie!
The ICA was neat, but small --only three gallery exhibitions were up and running right now (they seem to be between things at the moment). The littlest one was a kinda neat "look at computer screens and go through the work of six current Caribbean artists working in Boston" which we poked at a bit at the end. One of the two big ones was a giant screen projecting a version of Moby Dick from the whale's perspective, with a haunting orchestral soundtrack and a procedurally generated view of the ocean (and occasional surfacings) made with the Unity game engine. That was Austin's favourite, and he spent a while in there just watching the jellyfish and listening to the weird music.
And the last exhibit was for Words in Art, a topic NEAR AND DEAR to my heart. I looked at everything, and found a neon nightmare commentary on capitalism and community, and then decided to do the thing you can do sometimes at art galleries and just spent like fifteen minutes really looking at it from every angle. Walk further away and gaze from afar. Walk so close you're afraid to breathe on it. Look around the corners of the canvas and see how the paint trails away. Move down to look up at angles. Figure out how to read every repeated column of text, and all the different quotes.
Yeah, that's cool right?
"If You Got the Money Honey" by Joe Wardwell
The other coolest piece was called "Zé Carioca e amigos (Um festival embanado)" by Rivane Neuenschwander. It's apparently appropriated panels from a locally famous Brazillian comic strip, with the text and art removed, and chalk provided so that the audience can fill it in themselves.
I lucked out and spotted someone erasing and adding to the piece while I was there, and felt very pleased to get this shot. (I showed it to the person after and asked it it was okay that I had done so, and they said it was totally fine).
Here are some details:
Anyways, spending like two hours looking at and experiencing art felt really good! Austin and I came home via the grocery store where we bought the ingredients for another Baking Yesteryear recipe: Avocado Pie! The scraps of filling we have cleaned out of the stand mixer tasted _delicious_ but it claims to need at least five hours to set, so no pie until midnight. I took a couple progress shots, but will try and get at least one final shot once we've decorated with the whipped cream and lime (and maybe pretzels?) at the end.
The rest of the evening is likely to be watching Leverage and cleaning up the kitchen and hopefully having a generally nice time of things. Tomorrow is service ringing and maybe hanging out a bit and then I'm substituting at demo team. Everything in the world is still a lot and horrible, but some things are pretty good right now, and a lot of them are puzzling out words written under words, in eyesore bright colours.
~Sor
MOOP!
It's also been good to have an intentional date day with Austin --I haven't gotten one of those in a while. We've had lots of our once-a-week-on-a-school-night dates, but that's all tired after work and having to get up early and not as fun. Today was a properly planned date --we went to the ICA after bells, and then came home to make a pie!
The ICA was neat, but small --only three gallery exhibitions were up and running right now (they seem to be between things at the moment). The littlest one was a kinda neat "look at computer screens and go through the work of six current Caribbean artists working in Boston" which we poked at a bit at the end. One of the two big ones was a giant screen projecting a version of Moby Dick from the whale's perspective, with a haunting orchestral soundtrack and a procedurally generated view of the ocean (and occasional surfacings) made with the Unity game engine. That was Austin's favourite, and he spent a while in there just watching the jellyfish and listening to the weird music.
And the last exhibit was for Words in Art, a topic NEAR AND DEAR to my heart. I looked at everything, and found a neon nightmare commentary on capitalism and community, and then decided to do the thing you can do sometimes at art galleries and just spent like fifteen minutes really looking at it from every angle. Walk further away and gaze from afar. Walk so close you're afraid to breathe on it. Look around the corners of the canvas and see how the paint trails away. Move down to look up at angles. Figure out how to read every repeated column of text, and all the different quotes.
Yeah, that's cool right?
"If You Got the Money Honey" by Joe Wardwell
The other coolest piece was called "Zé Carioca e amigos (Um festival embanado)" by Rivane Neuenschwander. It's apparently appropriated panels from a locally famous Brazillian comic strip, with the text and art removed, and chalk provided so that the audience can fill it in themselves.
I lucked out and spotted someone erasing and adding to the piece while I was there, and felt very pleased to get this shot. (I showed it to the person after and asked it it was okay that I had done so, and they said it was totally fine).
Here are some details:
Anyways, spending like two hours looking at and experiencing art felt really good! Austin and I came home via the grocery store where we bought the ingredients for another Baking Yesteryear recipe: Avocado Pie! The scraps of filling we have cleaned out of the stand mixer tasted _delicious_ but it claims to need at least five hours to set, so no pie until midnight. I took a couple progress shots, but will try and get at least one final shot once we've decorated with the whipped cream and lime (and maybe pretzels?) at the end.
The rest of the evening is likely to be watching Leverage and cleaning up the kitchen and hopefully having a generally nice time of things. Tomorrow is service ringing and maybe hanging out a bit and then I'm substituting at demo team. Everything in the world is still a lot and horrible, but some things are pretty good right now, and a lot of them are puzzling out words written under words, in eyesore bright colours.
~Sor
MOOP!