It’s been a few years since I’ve kept my tradition of going to the Museum of Fine Arts on or around my birthday. (I took the above photo in 2010, when I celebrated my 41th birthday.) Today, though, is a perfect museum-going day. While much of the nation is in a deep-freeze, it’s unseasonably warm, rainy, and soupy-humid in Boston, with swirling wisps of snow-melt fog. What better day to celebrate one’s birthday inside where it’s warm and dry?
So today I have an afternoon date with John Singer Sargent, whose watercolors are on display at the MFA through January 20th. Water in the form of winter rains can leave you damp and shivering, or water in the form of watercolors can transport you to another time. On a gray and rainy January day, any influx of light and color is welcome.
Hoarded Ordinaries 
Jan 6, 2014 at 12:46 pm
Happy Birthday (the 6th, yes?), and many happy returns.
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Jan 6, 2014 at 6:04 pm
A very happy rainy wash of colors!!!
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Jan 7, 2014 at 4:58 am
Hope you had a lovely day, Lorianne. Belated warmest birthday wishes.
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Feb 22, 2014 at 5:03 am
Josiah McElheny presenting at MoMA
actually Buddhist sutras seem to be this sort of performance art ! :o)(
a sutra is objects reflected infinitely, mostly distorted but the odd clear one ! :o)
the core is there are one or two basic objects and that is what it is about, the rest is superfluous except to illustrate the (concatenating !) process of distortion and that of course is our perception of life, images endlessly and infinitely repeated, confused, fused, fractured and shattered, distorted…………… :o()
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