Found myself a little downtime today so I thought I’d share with you a couple goodies I’ve been saving up for months!

And before I forget, the AIGA Sloppy Office Party is happening tomorrow night so if you’re in the NYC area I hope to see you there! Love seeing old faces and meeting some new! Can’t wait!!

Back in August I took advantage of MoMA’s Target Free Friday Nights (4-8pm) and there were a couple great exhibits going on at the time that particularly caught my eye:

1) Measuring The Universe, by Roman Ondak.

Over the course of the exhibition, attendants mark the heights of Museum visitors on the gallery walls along with their first names and the dates of the measurements. Beginning as an empty white space, over time the gallery gradually accumulates the traces of thousands of people.

I got to record my presence but the moment I blinked I lost track of it amongst the layers and layers of other names and dates haha. Can anyone help me find me?

2) Ron Arad’s No Discipline had a lot of interesting pieces that mixed furniture, industrial design, architecture, and fine art and tempted the visitor to interact (boo on museum practices that separate the public from the artist’s intent!). Beyond visual interest, I found this often-overlooked piece worth noting:

The little spheres that spell out “GOD” mirror light which in turn spells out “WAR.” God as a source of war, war as the reflection of the nature of God, war made of light, light not coming from God but an element outside of God? A simple installation but definitely thought provoking!

And finally:
3) Waste Not, a collaborative exhibit by Chinese artist Song Dong and his mother Zhao XiangYuan shown in the United States for the first time.

An excerpt from the exhibit write-up:
Song’s mother was typical of the generation of Chinese who lived through the hardships of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s abiding by the dictum wu jin ai yong (waste not) [...] the result was a childhood surrounded by partially used bars of soap, loose buttons, assorted buckets, and scraps of fabric, stockpiled and preserved as protection against future hardship, even in the face of improving economic conditions.

Waste Not is a collaboration with the artist’s mother, initiated in an attempt to wrest her from grief following the death of his father in 2002. In the process of organizing and arranging the goods, the baggage of the past was, quite literally, unpacked and given a new life.

So beautiful.

It’s awesome that such amazing work is so accessible to the general public. Never thought I’d say this but Thank You, Target!

And finally, not exactly visually breathtaking but gave me a quick moment of ha! nonetheless:

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Nevermind the ridiculous headers or photographs. Awesome random visual alignment across the different sections of the website! Don’t you just love when coincidences like these take place? =)