I am still ALIVE

Jim Hodges
A diary of flowers (realness) 1993
"Since the late 1980s, Hodges has consistently turned to everyday materials as starting points for his art, transforming them into objects of unsentimental beauty.  From 1993 to 1996 he sketched flowers on napkins obtained from grocery stores and coffee shops, each a keepsake of a particular experience or emotion, like a page in a diary.  A form of visual poetry, each "page" is spread out against the wall, part of a constellation of drawings -
like a field of wildflowers -
resists a chronological reading." MoMA text

Hodges ended Diary of Flowers on January 9, 1996,

the day his close friend and fellow artist, Felix Gonzalez-Torres died of AIDS.

In addition,

I don't like to stick my nose into other people's business, especially in a museum, but I couldn't help myself, when a little girl, took a handful of Felix Gonzalez-Torres artwork.

I admit it's pretty and it's pretty tempting.

I said to the little thief "That is someone's artwork."
The guard corrected me
"It's OK to take the candy."


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65 bubblesand counting

CHAMPAGNE
and Sparkling Wine Tasting
Bohemian National House
65 bottles...

and bread

and then...

the winner is
shoes always come out on top
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Walk to the Metropolitan Museum

Strongbox
Steel, German, late 16th or early 17th century
This formidable steel strongbox is reinforced with an armature of the same material.  Its elaborate locking mechanism, consisting of nine bolts and various leaf-shaped shields, offered the owner a safe storage place for his valuables.

leaving the Met, enter the Ukrainian Institute

walking past guy with guitar after viewing Guitar Heroes show

the first sign of spring in Central Park
Hamamelis Arnold's Promise

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Architecture in the Desert

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