Ohio Landscape Magnified on Antique Glass Bottles for Photography of Invention (Taken with instagram)
Before I Die Chi
“Artist Candy Chang has teamed up with the Chicago Urban Art Society and youth-run art gallery Good News Only to bring her interactive public art project Before I Die (previously) to various Chicago neighborhoods. Passersby are confronted with a spray painted canvas bearing the repeated prompt “Before I die…” and can use provided chalk to complete the sentence, creating a public space for spontaneously shared dreams, hopes, fears and aspirations. The piece was installed yesterday in Edgewater and will be making stops in Pilsen, Wicker Park, Chinatown and elsewhere. You can follow the works progress at Before I Die Chi, and if you have a site where the piece can be installed you should get in touch.” (via Colossal)
(via splitsthesky)
March 2-8
- New camera a la future step-father
- Reisling, Mini-strawberry shortcake cupcakes, & bowling with Amanda, Kaitlyn, Anthony, Danica, & Jimbo
- Coffee shop/library/airplane/USC studying-15 hrs.
- Got all my best friends on board and ordered a ticket for LADY ANTEBELLUM’s show June 1 in the Cleveland area. Omg.
- Nail polish & Lipstick shopping
- Skype with Bri
- Smoothies-oh, how I’ve missed you
- Manicure/pedicure + watched documentary Killer At Large
- Monday morning, almost-4 hour coffee date with Carrie!
- Red Lipstick Life.
Trip to Los Angeles!
- finished Gulliver’s Travels; Tried On the Origin of Species. Gave up. Started Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room instead
- Morning tea & reading Virginia Woolf on the sunny balcony
- USC campus tour
- Bobby’s Sense & Sensuality in Indian Religious Literature class
- Blueberry Mint Lemonade & Pumpkin Milk Chocolate cake for lunch at Lemonade
- Studying undercover as one of the masses in the Fine Arts Library/on sunny benches/etc
- Feminist Pride Day/International Women’s Day
- Thrifting: found this Maggy London dress at Southern Cal Goodwill
- Downtown LA Art Walk! Syrup: Sweet Summer grilled cheese sandwich, featuring: strawberries, munster cheese, orange spread, mint, & turkey on light flaky cuban bread; Colin, Fraternity Row.
Philosophical Question of the week: What is more strange in human beings: Involuntary Asexuality or Voluntary Chastity?
Weekend Wishlist:
- Venice/Beach; Santa Monica; LA Live
- lunch from a food truck?
- Hollywood
- Salakot Sizzle & Grill
- Zip car-ing around L.A.
» 1. Make List 2. Do Stuff
The more you study the Morgan exhibition, the more you realize that lists are everywhere, and that list making is an essential human activity — a way not just of keeping track but also of imposing order on what would otherwise be chaos. Your address book, a restaurant menu, the instructions on the MetroCard machine, prescription-drug ads spelling out possible side effects: they’re all lists. So are those annoying thoughts at the back of your head reminding you that you have books overdue at the library and still haven’t sent a thank-you note to Aunt Gert. Artists are no different, no less preoccupied with keeping track, though most of them have better handwriting than the rest of us, and their lists tend to be a little neater.
I wish I was a millionaire so that I could jet out to see this art exhibit.
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Instead, she sat there, smiling that small, small inscrutable smile, like Mona Lisa herself, although I must say that until that moment, I’d never found Mona Lisa’s smile particularly interesting or even particularly a smile. Looking at her, I understood what probably everyone else already knows about the woman in that painting: we are drawn to her not because of what the smile gives us but because it gives nothing. We are waiting to get past the smile. We are waiting - we’ve spent centuries waiting - for the woman to speak.
Belong to Me, Marisa de los Santos
Women in Art: 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art, by Philip Scott Johnson
All of them have the same facial expression. Not okay. Sexism in western art is not cool.
