Exploring Infinity

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist whose work encompasses a wide range of mediums. Painting, sculpture, performance, installation - Kusama does it all. Most well known for her use of space and exploration of infinity, Kusama has taken her work right down the west side to David Zwirner gallery here in New York.

Her exhibition, I Who Have Arrived In Heaven, contains about 27 paintings, a video installation, and two mirrored "infinity rooms" - the stars of the show. TT and I had the chance to check it out two weeks after its inception. We waited in the cold for three hours but the 45 seconds spent in "The Souls of Million Light Years Away" was well worth it.

It's an ethereal experience, and one I don't think you can easily describe in words. You are standing in a mirrored room on a 3-ft long platform surrounded by water. There are 75 colored LED bulbs that are hanging around you and seem to echo into eternity through the mirrors. As you turn, you see yourself repeat in the reflections and then almost fade into the distance amongst the lights.

It's 45 seconds of a very personal experience and then the doors open and the harsh light of reality floods back in.

Unfortunately, we didn't get the chance to see the second infinity room, "Love is Calling," or see the video installation, "Manhattan Suicide Addict." We spent another 45 minutes exploring Kusama's incredibly colorful and rich paintings, happy to be back in the warmth of the gallery! I'm hoping we can go back and see the rest of the exhibit before it closes.

Some of my favorites!

 

 

I Who Have Arrived In Heaven will run through December 21st. The show is immensely popular and the gallery has issued warnings of lines up to 4 hours long at popular hours! I'm so happy we got to experience it. :)

It's Football Season!

My birthday has come and passed. The leaves have started changing and the brisk nights mean I can finally bring out my leather jacket! With Pumpkin Spice Lattes (blech) and boots galore slowly peeking out from the summer curtain that hid them away for so many months, the fall is here. And with fall comes one thing - football.

Call me un-American but I don't follow the NFL. College football will always hold the only space in my heart allotted for that beloved pig-skin that so many dedicate entire weekends to worshipping. But while I may be at the bar for the beer and the laughs rather than the TVs, there is one thing I absolutely can not resist.

Free things.

Voila! Free!!

So when my boyfriend called me up to say his company was offering discounted tickets to Jets games I was all in - because a big enough discount means free in my mind! Plus, I had never been to a real professional football game and I'm always down for new experiences.

The weather was beautiful. The friends were beautiful. The beer was beautiful. And it was a perfect day for selfies!

Plus, I got to wear that cool Jets Santa hat!

don't we look fun?

An Explanation

This past year has been one for the books, lemme tell ya. I absolutely cannot put into words how many twists and turns and absolutely incredible adventures have weasled their way into my life.

So I'm starting this blog.

As a way for my friends and family all around the world to keep up with what I'm doing and hopefully, if I let you get a personal sneak peek into my adventures, you'll forgive me for missing your birthday, or forgetting to check in as much as we all would like :)

#1

If Jean-Paul says it, it must be worth something, right? 

Until tomorrow, friends.