crazy days

Here's a recap of my crazy life.

Snow was forcasted to fall yesterday so I rode my bike to work in protest of winter. My bike protested back at me on the way home with a flat tire.

My roomate and I finally cleaned out what was once our ex-roomate's room but could be more truthfully described as an 'unusually large closet'. It is now our sewing room and once I'm finished organizing it I plan on gorging myself on food and hibernating within it's walls for the upcomming winter months.

Frida-mania: The art center I work at just opened the Frida Kahlo exhibit that has been in the works for the last few years. It's an amazing show that includes artworks that have never before been shown to the public and/or have never left Mexico. The opening party was crazy - bringing in over 2,500 guests - and my workload hasn't left me much time to recover....let alone rest. I know that Frida-mania has been growing continusly for the last several years and I attribute a large portion of that to the Salma Hayek movie (which was based on the biography of Frida by Hayden Herrera [a co-curator of this exhibit]). This year's Halloween and Dia de los Muertos were no exception. Everywhere I looked I saw trinkets, knicknacks, and calendars with Frida's image on them, articles on how to DIY a Frida costume, or people with drawn on unibrows. Her image (specifically as seen through her eyes) is so oversaturated in todays culture that I'm afraid it has lost some of its poignancy. Whith that said, I have been completely blown away each and every time I walk through the exhibition. I can safely say now, after seeing many of her most famous pieces in person, that every reproduction I've seen of her work (whether it be in the movie, online, or in print form) have not done the orignals any justice. If you live in or around the Minneapolis area I urge you to come see the show - you have until January 22nd. You've been warned...