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2/27/24 SENSE Some people have a sixth sense call ESP (extra-sensory perception). @Boomer shared this mural on the back of the ESP Tea and Coffee Shop in Old Town on the Alexandria Public Art Ride, so I had to go back to get the photo again, and better. It was between this and the sculpture of FDR in a wheel chair (loss of a sense of touch)
2/27/24 Lichtenstein
Brushstroke
Roy Lichtenstein
1996-97, painted aluminum, 32’ high
Lent by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture GardenRoy Lichtenstein burst on the art scene in the early 1960s with paintings inspired by comic books; today they look disarming and playful, but when new, they seemed shockingly irreverent. For three decades, he amusingly used an isolated brushstroke as the emblem of high art. Then Lichtenstein created his first Brushstrokesculptures, giving fluid “paint” a free-standing physical presence. The monumentality of this example evokes the heroism of the abstract expressionist painters, while its rapid calligraphic energy belies its static form. Retrieved from: https://www.kennedy-center.org/reach/art-at-the-reach/ on 2/27/24 at 8:30pm
2/26/24 OFTEN It is not OFTEN that one is selected for jury duty (15%chance in Arlington stated by Clerk of Court) and gets a rooftop view of the Potomac River in a beautiful sunny 10th floor window. Biked here this morning (even lower chance of that happening).
2/23/24 As ai photographed this mural of John Langston, i walked around The corner of the building and there was a Arlington County sign about a scavenger hunt for black history. It had a QR code and a link to a scavenger hunt map and with educational videos including history of the sites on the hunt. Turns out, that this mural is the last of the clues. I plan to visit the sites by bike to learn more about black history in Arlington. I did learn that Miss Sam San Diego is in the mural.
2/23/24 Cardinals… I have noticed that as the weather gets warmer, there are more flags flying. Malcolm red birds.
2/23/24 it took great restraint, not to return in my car to take the sign, which you cannot see very well in this picture because I hidit so that no one else would grab it before I got back with my car. It said something like “live with passion, laugh out loud, love always.” I have a tendency to want to pick up things and save them from the landfill, but I don’t need any more stuff in my house.
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