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mark rothko

no.21, 1949 (detail)

© anita aguilar, from "a day at the museum" set

read a good poem: on the origin of things

take off, 1956.

oil and enamel on canvas

helen frankenthaler

take off (detail) ...

taken at the metropolitan museum of art, dec 3, 2009

photo © anita aguilar

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On The Origins Of Things

Everyone knows that the moon started out

as a renegade fragment of the sun, a solar

flare that fled that hellish furnace

and congealed into a flat frozen pond suspended

between the planets. But did you know

that anger began as music, played

too often and too loudly by drunken performers

at weddings and garden parties? Or that turtles

evolved from knuckles, ice from tears, and darkness

from misunderstanding? As for the dominant

thesis regarding the origin of love, I

abstain from comment, nor will I allow

myself to address the idea that dance

began as a kiss, that happiness was

an accidental import from Spain, that the ancient

game of jump-the-fire gave rise

to politics. But I will confess

that I began as an astronomer—a liking

for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things,

a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit—

and that my longing for you has not taken me

very far from that original desire

to inscribe a comet's orbit around the walls

of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars.

--by Troy Jollimore via poets.org, february 8, 2010

the beauteous big bambú

5,000 interlocking 30- and 40-foot-long bamboo poles and 50 miles of nylon rope are almost enough to make me consider a metropolitan museum of art membership, just so i can spend the summer under the shade of the big bambú.








more on doug + mike starn's project here.

all photos © anita aguilar

art shots: do you see what i see?

jon stewart?
aidan quinn?
actually...
vsevolod mikhailovich garshin (1855-1888), 1884. by ilia efimovich repin.

apolo anton ohno?
noooo. an egyptian peasant woman and her child, 1869-70. artist: leon bonnat.

art shots: have a look

andy warhol. nine jackies, 1964. acrylic and silk screen on canvas.

paul gaugin. la orana maria, 1891. oil on canvas.

marco breuer. spin (C-283), 2008.

chris mccaw. sunburned, gsp #166, mohave/winter solstice, 2007. gelatin silver prints.

tom friedman. untitled, 1998. chromogenic print.

pertti kekarainen. tila (passage 1), 2006. chromogenic print.

all photos © anita aguilar

art shots: met museum

the charles engelhard court, in the metropolitan museum of art's new american wing.
december 3, 2009.

the charles engelhard court, in the metropolitan museum of art's new american wing.
december 3, 2009.

the charles engelhard court, in the metropolitan museum of art's new american wing.
december 3, 2009.

the charles engelhard court, in the metropolitan museum of art's new american wing.
december 3, 2009.

all photos © anita aguilar