PeSuit and Tie

  the cleveland art scene when sib and i were watching the marc jacobs and louis vuitton  documentary, she exclaimed "that's the cleveland clinic pumpkin" when the camera panned over yayoi kusama's pumpkin. i was confused. then sib explained - the major hospital does in fact have the 2014 pumpkin in the main campus' display and sent me the website of the hospital's artwork. and i remembered when we visited a relative there years ago - there was art in many corners.  i thought that was such a cool concept - art is present in all our eras in life. we celebrate through art: little kids birthed in the hospital connect with crayons and messy paint. so many people in recovery from illness - unable to work - develop the time to heal through art. in my work i use art a lot as a coping skill. when struggling with grief, many people resort to creating and consuming art as a way to express how we feel, beyond words.  here's what the clinic states about the art there:...

  is your mantle decked out? does your christmas tree smell fresh? are you baking delish cookies and writing your list to the big fat man? do you think santa's going to be on ozempic this year? all i know is - my calendar is booked. this december, not a weekend is open, and even my evenings, beside cooking meals from bourdain's appetites , will be spent in search for the best hot chocolate (so far the only answer is sib's with a dash of peppermint bark rumchata), rating christmas decorations, and planning to do some of my own diy creations (artist block i guess?). local xmas tree lighting friday, vic ², sib and i made our merry way to the museum's mix: snow globe . two snowflake beauties, a cowboy santa, and dickens character charted through the museum's most exciting exhibit: renaissance to runway . the entrance though, was rather disappointing: a five-minute preview video made almost entirely with ai, to give us glance of items we may find. why were all the charac...