30.7.06


Yesterday I tried to go to the Fine Arts Museum but instead just talked with these boys from Guadalajara about art and consciousness and Americans and being a gringa and globalization and religion and public displays of affection what we want to do about the world for a couple of hours. They are graphic designers so it was fun to talk about the effect that art and design can have on people and culture. And it turned out that it was Rafa(el)'s 21st birthday so Jenna and I decided we would bake him a cake and we all went to the grocery store and made a gigantic mexican feast of tacos, guacamole, homemade salsa, beans, and of course piscolas. Oddly enough my days as a tortilla maker at Mi Rancho payed off. But my usually good baking skills were lacking. My attempt at a Jewish apple cake in an oven with no temperature markings turned into a huge burnt black mess. Apparently we were a little off on our guess of what the equivalent of 350 degrees was. (but it still tasted good inside and I saw Rafa eating it today again for dessert). Then today I actually did go to the Museo de Bellas Artes and saw a photography exhibit of Elliott Erwitt and a really colorful painter that I liked a lot named Pablo Dominguez. In front of the museum there is a big park and on Sundays people come out and juggle and do acrobatics and sell funny stuff. Once it got dark it was kind of like practice for the Surrealist Training Circus, which when I thought about made me miss Bard for the first time. I don't know if that grammar made sense, switching between languages is kind of hard. But, man, speaking spanish all day long is great. I can notice myself getting better and better and catch mistakes before i make them, kind of like the nightbloomer flowers that you can actually watch as they open and see a process happen that you usually only notice has happened once it's over. cachei? Now I need to go to sleep because I have ceramics tomorrow and I forgot that i was supposed to buy different types of dirt and some tools and things so I have to get up early and go find them before class. oh man, i also forgot I was supposed to do a bunch of drawings too. I guess it's not off to bed. It is really hard to adjust to the idea that I'm in college here too, because I'm kind of not.
(p.s. there are a lot of pictures but they are on jenna's camera so i have to wait for her to get her act together to send them to me. maybe one day.)

oh yeah, there was also this cool mime just chillin in the middle of the street. I love how watching mimes never gets old.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

te amo! espero que todo es bueno en tu vida y que tu nuevo casa es todo que tu quieres y mas!