Hello there! How was the weekend? Hope it was fantastic, and that your Monday wasn't half bad either.
I didn't do much of importance but in the best possible way. I spent my halfday on Friday at the National Gallery of Art. I wanted to see the "Picasso's Drawings" exhibit before it closes on May 6, and I highly recommend you do the same. It's thrilling to see all the different styles Picasso tried out in his early career, starting from his first known work at age 9. Age 9! That's like our elementary school art classes when we were drawing houses with chimney stacks and swirly smoke.
While I was there, I also took a walk through the "I Spy: Photography and Theatre of the Street." If you are all interested by cities and urban life, this is worth a trip. I found Bruce Davidson's "Subway" series which captures the horror of the NYC subway system in 1980 so intriguing, because visiting New York now, it's almost impossible to imagine that things could've been that bad, and equally unbelievable that in the span of 20-odd years things turned back around. The subway cars in Davidson's photos are just absolutely covered in graffiti. That level of disrepair and neglect is shocking to see.
Remember the bulletin board conundrum in my last post? I realized I had some white paint, and in the spirit of the white bulletin board in that post, I tried that technique but with chevrons. I bought some painter's tape and taped them off after reading this chevron-how to. Good thing this project was practically free, because it didn't turn out so great. The white paint is splotchy because I'm an uber lazy painter, the tape peeled off some of the cork in places, and in other places the paint leaked under the tape. Maybe it you are more careful than me it would work. I need to stop crafting and just buy things. I don't have the art expertise to make it look good. But eh, I covered up the problem areas with postcards and Instax photos and Instagram hides a multitude of sins.
I also tried to cook a bit - I made chicken salad and started Joy's Brown Sugar Bacon Biscuits. I just made the bacon for now, will make the biscuits later... Joe told me I had to blog about the bacon, guess he liked it. It was pretty yummy! My roommate Christine just went vegetarian (she started a fun blog about her journey!), and she snapped this less than appetizing picture, but I promise it was good. I don't think it tempted her too much though...
