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I made it!
Now, on to the California Science Center to see the Endeavor shuttle!
If only I had smiled =]
This is installment No. 1 of my birthday selfies for my 365 project. I post several more over the next few days and funny enough, most of them are reflection shots! So many fabulous, shiny objects at that museum.
Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirrors exhibit at the Hirschhorn Museum. One of the many sculptures on exhibit as well as the mirrors.
Taking a little break from the Wallowa photos. This is one of the pieces in the #YayoiKusama #exhibit @seattleartmuseum called #InfinityMirrors. Loved the exhibit, but it’s even more regimented than I expected. If you can get tickets – go!
Japanese experimental artist Yayoi Kusama was obsessed with phallic symbols, creating a huge variety of many colours and sizes. On display at the Art Gallery of Ontario until May 27, 2018.
"Obliteration room" in Yayoi Kusama's "Infinity Mirrors" Exhibition at Washington's Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum
As visitors enter an all-white domestic setting, they are handed stickers of brightly colored polka dots and are asked to leave their mark wherever they choose, placing the sticky circles anywhere and everywhere. The space gradually transforms as a result of the interaction and the mass accumulation of the dots ultimately changes the white interior into an unrecognizable blur of colors.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/blue-food...
The Hirshhorn Museum's last weekend to display Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Exhibit. It was extremely difficult to obtain tickets into this museum for the last several months but I finally won the lottery and got in on a special event "The After Party" on the last weekend before Yayoi's display will move on to another city.
She has a series of 6 special art displays that are extra special. The lines are long and worth the wait to see what is inside. Once inside, you are only allowed 20 to 30 seconds to enjoy her artwork and LED lightshow. Then you must exit. I barely got inside and then bam.... the doors opened again. But those are the rules.
Then there is the Obliteration Room. Completely furnished by white IKEA furniture. You are given a sheet of stickers that you are allowed to place anywhere you wish! Oh what JOY! The best part was there wasn't a time limit. There was also a real piano! I suddenly turned and watched all of the sacred security guards enter the Obliteration Room and say goodnight. The Hirshhorn was soon to close. The pianist stood up and took her bow. My husband and I said grace and had our good night kiss. It was a good date worth the wait.
Infinity Mirrors - Yayoi Kusama
The Obliteration Room
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
Rocking Chair
Destruction of 3D.
I'll probably lose sleep wondering if I should have picked Jem for this shoot instead of Jerrica, but what's done is done.
One of the first exhibits at the Hirshhorn's Yayoi Kusama exhibition -- neat LED lighting, cycled through colors, this is with all of the lights on. I wish I had more time to look around but it was super busy and they were shuffling us through pretty fast. Psuedo-selfie, I am visible in one of the two many-mirrored openings.
Infinity Mirrors - Yayoi Kusama
The Obliteration Room
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
Leg Lamp
Destruction of 3D.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“Now is the time to resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just.
Now is the time to speak up and to wear as a badge of honor the opprobrium of bigots.
Now is the time to confront the weak core at the heart of America’s addiction to optimism; it allows too little room for resilience, and too much for fragility.
Hazy visions of “healing” and “not becoming the hate we hate” sound dangerously like appeasement.
The responsibility to forge unity belongs not to the denigrated but to the denigrators.
The premise for empathy has to be equal humanity; it is an injustice to demand that the maligned identify with those who question their humanity.” ―Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/now-is-the-tim...
This was an exhibit you looked into, as you can see by the guy across from me. The lights and patterns were constantly changing. You could look as long as you wanted (although you coudl see the line of people waiting to take your place). You were not, however, allowed to touch any surface - even on the outside. I should have brought a long lens...
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors | Hirshhorn Museum
“There’s an embarrassment of phalluses, and that is the point. The phalluses were Kusama’s way of turning fear into something funny. Mika Yoshitake, the curator of the exhibition, explains that when Kusama was a child, her mother, suspecting that Kusama’s father was having an affair, had young Yayoi spy on the lovers and report back. This early vision of sex left her traumatized; she suffered hallucinations. Years later, as self-therapy, she began making soft phalluses and attaching them to furniture and floors. ‘By continuously reproducing the forms of things that terrify me’, Kusama has said, ‘I am able to suppress the fear … and lie down among them. That turns the frightening thing into something funny, something amusing’.” ―Sarah Boxer
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/yayoi-kusama...
The Hirshhorn Museum's last weekend to display Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Exhibit. It was extremely difficult to obtain tickets into this museum for the last several months but I finally won the lottery and got in on a special event "The After Party" on the last weekend before Yayoi's display will move on to another city.
She has a series of 6 special art displays that are extra special. The lines are long and worth the wait to see what is inside. Once inside, you are only allowed 20 to 30 seconds to enjoy her artwork and LED lightshow. Then you must exit. I barely got inside and then bam.... the doors opened again. But those are the rules.
Then there is the Obliteration Room. Completely furnished by white IKEA furniture. You are given a sheet of stickers that you are allowed to place anywhere you wish! Oh what JOY! The best part was there wasn't a time limit. There was also a real piano! I suddenly turned and watched all of the sacred security guards enter the Obliteration Room and say goodnight. The Hirshhorn was soon to close. The pianist stood up and took her bow. My husband and I said grace and had our good night kiss. It was a good date worth the wait.
More photos of my dad's awesome $400 deluxe infinity mirror!
The Christmas tree is a particularly opportune subject for use with this mirror! Here it is in the center, to make all lighted lines converge on a single point.
BACKSTORY: My parents had a Christmas party. I got to see some of my family that I don't see often, a friend from Petersburg, and my old next-door neighbors (from 1983-1999).
Christmas tree, infinity mirror, reflection.
Mom and Dad's house, Stafford, Virginia.
December 8, 2007.
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A room with an infinite number of polka-dotted pumpkins, the creation of the undisputed Princess of Polka Dots, Yayoi Kusama.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“This is a good unpacking of one facet of racism / the issue at hand, but the constant admonition that Cho should not have characterized it as a "fight" is outright wrong.
Because if Swinton had had the nerve to approach an Asian (wo)man in person —or, let's be more real, one like Cho in person and privately —things may well have gone very differently.
Swinton deserves every disapprobation.
It was racist in the 1st place to take the role, then to justify it, then to reach out to Cho, and then TO RELEASE PRIVATE EMAILS all in service of covering herself in justification.
Just acknowledge that it was all and is racist and move on.
Don't make us Asians look even worse by forcing us to play along to your face and then look even worse for justifiably venting to our friends.”
www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/12/21/506347676/when...
“Our stories are told by white actors over and over again and we feel at a loss to know how to cope with it.” ―Margaret Cho
“And it means that too many conversations about inequality are never about the broader ramifications of the decisions people make, institutionally or personally.” ―Gene Demby
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors / Hirshhorn Museum
“This is a good unpacking of one facet of racism / the issue at hand, but the constant admonition that Cho should not have characterized it as a "fight" is outright wrong.
Because if Swinton had had the nerve to approach an Asian (wo)man in person —or, let's be more real, one like Cho in person and privately —things may well have gone very differently.
Swinton deserves every disapprobation.
It was racist in the 1st place to take the role, then to justify it, then to reach out to Cho, and then TO RELEASE PRIVATE EMAILS all in service of covering herself in justification.
Just acknowledge that it was all and is racist and move on.
Don't make us Asians look even worse by forcing us to play along to your face and then look even worse for justifiably venting to our friends.”
www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/12/21/506347676/when...
“White readers want absolution. They also want to manage all the risk of interracial contact in a way that minority groups can never do.” ―Tressie McMillan Cottom
“And it means that too many conversations about inequality are never about the broader ramifications of the decisions people make, institutionally or personally.” ―Gene Demby