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From Nature To Machine; 2 Year old Snowman!


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If you are new to by blogs, welcome. If you are not new to my blogs, welcome back! Hope everyone had a wonderful & safe spring break.



This past week was an eventful week for me. Going on the trip to San Francisco, it being weekend Easter weekend & trying to get getting back into the groove of things back home. On our trip, we tried some new restaurants, went to the California Academy of Sciences, SFMOMA, Ripleys!, Madame Tussauds & the San Francisco Dungeon. We walked around UC Berkeley, Haight Street in SF & around Pier 39, which was pretty fun. It was fun, finding inspiration in the big city that surrounds its visitors with art & beautiful weather.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Snowman, 1987/2016


Here in Central California, we have been experiencing warmer weather than usual, which we aren’t used to because we were having nice San Francisco/Los Angeles weather. The other day, as I was leaving the store; walking to my car I literally started melting (no joke). At SFMOMA, there was is artwork collaborated between two Swiss artists, Peter Fischli & David Weiss that would not withstand the Central California environment. Their artwork is called Snowman, which consists of a refrigerator preserving snowman from 2016. The snowman has a copper skeleton & is made by water condensing around the skeleton in a refrigerator.  Really adore this artwork; it takes something that can be found in nature (real snow), turns it into something artificial (the snow is being made in the refrigerator), preserving it & placing it in a museum. This piece also plays with the idea between taking something that is temporary & turning it into something permanent. This piece will be at SFMOMA until May 13, 2018, so if you haven’t checked it out make sure to do so!



P.S. just a reminder my design for the My Neighbor Totoro design contest is still open for voting until April 11th, so if you haven’t voted already please do so. I would really appreciate it.
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