From May

The beginning of a walk with the moon in the sky.

Would like to have this Jasper.  I could take or leave the kettle.

From Ebe's favorite park.

A common stop on our evening walk.  Here we usually stop and make phone calls

to family and friends.

Views like this provide a stark contrast to where

I grew up, in the Suburban South.

What is it like to grow up in an environment similar to this? 

Does one feel a place in history?  A part of some specific context?

Not that growing up in the suburbs doesn't provide a specific context, 

but the context is defined heavily and maybe mostly by the media 

(do you remember watching Reboot?) 

or consumer goods (do you remember Ecto Cooler?).

Of course, maybe that is just a sign of our times with the

emergence of the internet.  I remember getting the internet 

and a hotmail email address in 5th or 6th grade.

However, I don't remember ever meeting with friends

and reminiscing over some old hang out or the old 

high school because there was no old hang out or old high school.  

There was just the Walmart in York County or  the Bookworm on Cherry Road.

Not that I don't have found memories of the Bookworm,

but I grew up in an environment that felt like it could

be a suburb anywhere.

Walk About

While walking around with Jace downtown

we stumbled across this odd cluster of brick

buildings.

As you can see, the window display consists of a television and insulation.

Here is a detail shot where you can really see the amount of insulation that went into creating this effect.

 This display is difficult to see.  It is large sheets of silver poster.

Cincinnati has its own contemporary art collection right here.

I don't know what these store fronts used to sell, and I'm not sure if these businesses 

are even out of business.

But someone had to put that tv and insulation in there...

 

Cozy Vibes

Rainy day.

Notice the plaster head hanging from the house above?

It may sound incongruous with the images above,

but cozy vibes tonight consist of ordering pizza 

and watching Roseanne with Jace.

Have you ever seen the last episode of Roseanne?

I saw it when I was in 6th grade.

It was really upsetting and poignant.

Mid May

New colors for latest project.

Really excited about the Asian Food Fest coming up next weekend.

 

This weekend was spent reading Colette

an visiting the Carl Solway Gallery 

that is exhibiting Milton Glaser's work.

 

Colette

There are a couple patterned prints of Glaser's 

that are nice, but I haven't been able 

to find any images of them online.

 

Name

Recently, someone pointed out I am not longer a Suburban Aesthete.

So now I am wondering if I should change the name of my blog,

start a new blog, or just continue on with the same name I have 

had for years.

Decisions are the worst!

Contemporary Art Center

Recently I visited the Contemporary Art Center.

Some images.

 I really responded to the architecture and the materials

of the building itself.  I liked the building better than most 

of the exhibits.

 In fact, most of the floors were taken over by an 

art is craft interactive show that was a bit annoying.

Interactive displays asked you to scream, some displays

were noisy and it felt more like a fad than interesting

work.  Nothing sticks.  Three whole floors dedicated

to this stuff.  However, some elements caught 

my eye and I isolated them with my camera.

 Child art from one of the interactive galleries.

 Another nice element to the building was the views.

 The second floor had work by Hema Upadhyay.

The work is remniscent of the slums of India.