A moment's pause for pretty
Dec. 13th, 2018 10:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jennariaBy which I do not mean I'm going to share cat pictures. (I mean, probably that too? but not in this post.) This time, I'm posting about Slightly More Epic Than Intended Adventures In Seeing Infinity Mirrors, which is an art exhibit at the High Art Museum in Atlanta.
Advance tickets sold out pretty quickly, so the High sells an additional 100 tickets daily if you get there early. So Wife and I headed out early, got there...and found the tickets already sold. Apparently 'mid-week and the schools aren't out yet' was not enough of a guarantee. The first person in line for the day had been there at 4 AM, for a sale starting at 9. Wife uses a walker. We are never going to be those people in line five hours early.
WELL EPIC CRAP.
Fortunately, a nice lady waiting outside offered to sell us her extra two tickets - she and her husband had planned to go with friends, who'd gotten sick today and couldn't come. HOORAY.
A Very Small Selection of photos:
Inside one of the Infinity Mirrors - like a vision of the afterlife, with flickering candles all around us that occasionally went out entirely, leaving us in total darkness, before coming back to life one by one. (The taller woman with glasses, at the far right, looking at the viewer, is me. The shorter woman, looking out in the sea of candles, is Wife.)
Probably my favorite of Kusama's paintings that we saw, part of her Infinity Nets series - the painting itself is a serious of small hoops, painted in white over a gray canvas, but the effect reminds me of lace, or waves, or sand eddying in wind.
The official name for this is 'Life (Repetitive Vision).' Possibly because 'Field of Tentacles' was taken, I don't know.
Last Infinity Mirror. Yes. Well. Did I mention that Kusama's signature 'thing' is that she really loves polka dots? There's a reason why the cluster of people, barely visible in the center of the photo, look a little bewildered.
...and then we headed home, because we were tired, with a brief stop to pick up Harry Potter fabric so Wife can decorate her walker with it and make it Super Obvious that it's hers and no one else's. Whee, fandom and disability.
Advance tickets sold out pretty quickly, so the High sells an additional 100 tickets daily if you get there early. So Wife and I headed out early, got there...and found the tickets already sold. Apparently 'mid-week and the schools aren't out yet' was not enough of a guarantee. The first person in line for the day had been there at 4 AM, for a sale starting at 9. Wife uses a walker. We are never going to be those people in line five hours early.
WELL EPIC CRAP.
Fortunately, a nice lady waiting outside offered to sell us her extra two tickets - she and her husband had planned to go with friends, who'd gotten sick today and couldn't come. HOORAY.
A Very Small Selection of photos:
Inside one of the Infinity Mirrors - like a vision of the afterlife, with flickering candles all around us that occasionally went out entirely, leaving us in total darkness, before coming back to life one by one. (The taller woman with glasses, at the far right, looking at the viewer, is me. The shorter woman, looking out in the sea of candles, is Wife.)
Probably my favorite of Kusama's paintings that we saw, part of her Infinity Nets series - the painting itself is a serious of small hoops, painted in white over a gray canvas, but the effect reminds me of lace, or waves, or sand eddying in wind.
The official name for this is 'Life (Repetitive Vision).' Possibly because 'Field of Tentacles' was taken, I don't know.
Last Infinity Mirror. Yes. Well. Did I mention that Kusama's signature 'thing' is that she really loves polka dots? There's a reason why the cluster of people, barely visible in the center of the photo, look a little bewildered.
...and then we headed home, because we were tired, with a brief stop to pick up Harry Potter fabric so Wife can decorate her walker with it and make it Super Obvious that it's hers and no one else's. Whee, fandom and disability.
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