Ivymere entertains thoughts of giving the hell up.

finish my personal projects (read all 6 entries…)

Worth doing!

Update  — 10 months ago

Well, I’m down to 13 days left since this is my challenged goal…

I have these to do:

Clean my boots.
Have LfW (my business) be up and running well!
Start and finish 4th scrapbook.
Bookmooch whatever books I can before I leave so at least I know the books have found good homes.
Go through all my magazines and remove pieces of stuff I want to keep for my art files. Or for scrapbooking. Or for my journal.
Actually finish my art files by putting in the inspirational stuff into page protectors in binders.
Cut soda from my diet (occasional treats are okay, but in general, no).
Learn to cook pasta WELL. Learn to cook at least 8 dishes.
Organize my sentimental stuff/souvenirs.
Make a list of all the museums I’ve ever been to.
Finish holiday gifts and such.
Send all my winter holiday packages early.

Comments:

I like this list

I need to make a list of museums too.

Ivymere entertains thoughts of giving the hell up.

Museums

Have you been to very many?? :)

I consider myself lucky

I don’t travel on my own, but have seen a number of them through a family vacation, a visit to see friends, and high school class trips, etc.

The Tate, Chicago Art Museum, MoMA in Monterey, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale Art Museum, Wesleyan Art Gallery, local New Haven galleries. Maybe not an impressive list to those who pointedly visit, but some of these seem like key locations.

Also question marks on San Francisco and London Art Museums.

I haven’t been to the Guggenheim or the Louvre, but don’t see how I could miss them in a lifetime. There are also a lot of smaller galleries in New York that I haven’t visited, even though theoretically its not far from home.

Ivymere entertains thoughts of giving the hell up.

Wonderful

Which Tate? I’ve been to the Tate Modern but I was a little disappointed. It was fun, though.

I haven’t been to too many. Tons in Paris but too many to list. My favorite there is the Musee d’Orsay (yes I liked it better than the Louvre). I went to a few in London, one in Macau, and a couple of them here in Hawaii. Nothing too grand otherwise. I can’t wait to see the ones in NY and CA.

Yes it was the Tate Modern

I actually didn’t know there was another, although it makes sense that there is a distinction.

Sometimes the greatest masterpieces don’t make the largest of the impressions on me.

Creepily, I remember “Portrait of Dorian Gray”, and a sculpture by Yoko Ono claiming one is an idiot not to think a small cannonball is the size of a period in one’s mind. I also remember Georgia O’Keefe’s flowers, although at the time I wasn’t highly moved.

At the MoMA in Monterey there were canvases using a sort of architectural drafting technique creating a horizontal limnus spreading like the infrastructure of a city abstracted in cross-section. This was highly interesting to me, but now I forget the artist’s name.

I’m beginning to wonder whether it is possible to have a genuine view on the artworld, when it has not always been my life, and I cannot possess it.

Maybe when I create art I am attempting to make up for this.

I have a gallery at Machina Aesthetika.


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