Naptime

Our bodies are close to and around all these other bodies all the time, on the street, in stores the aisles are always one person wide, and especially on the subway. I say “excuse me” at least a dozen times a day. Everyone does. People here have an awareness of where their bodies. And a […]

Magritte

Magritte made me think about vocabulary. Magritte works in trunks (the human kind), tubes, clouds, wood, ball bearings, music, chess pieces, rocks. Blues and browns and blacks and greys. I work in animals, stained glass, shoulders and brown hair, houses, and glasses (the kind you drink out of). I work in fairy tales and Bible […]

Reading

I won’t be a snob about seasickness anymore. They told us we might get seasick while the boat was tied up. I only get seasick when I ride the Star Wars ride at Disney World more than two times in a row, so I figured I was fine. (For the record, I rode four times […]

Balthus

“If it’s creepy-dirty, that’s Balthus,” a friend said to me once. Balthus didn’t like bios, thought people didn’t need to know anything about him, that his work should speak for itself. It should. It does. So I wasted no time learning about him before I went to see his show at the Met. He also […]