The Red Tree and the Blue Bed...

In addition to the major exhibit that Liz and I saw at MoMA, we also saw two much smaller exhibits.  This one is called "Frida and Diego: The Last Dream."  Frida Khalo and Diego Rivera were two of Mexico's most famous and beloved artists who worked from the 1920's to her death in 1954.  The story is complicated but the short version is this construction of a red tree growing on a blue bed may have been a model for part of the stage set for an opera about the two artists.  There was no text block on display and the guide I talked to said they had not been told exactly what this was.  But as you can see, it is an absolutely stunning work of art, created for the stage.

I was immediately taken by the roots of the tree and the bed and then the ground underneath and so I photographed that.  Then I thought I should do a wide-angle view of the entire piece.  Just amazing!

 

In Profile

I sat down on a bench to take a rest after seeing the Marcel Duchamp exhibit.  My camera was at my side as it always is.  There was some kind of group listening to a docent explaining something about the exhibit.  I saw this mother and her son at the back of the group and I was taken with their profiles.  I can't explain it exactly but this was clearly a photograph.  I shot about 8 frames as they moved around and chose this one as the best.  I really like this photograph for some reason that I can't explain.

 

The Escalator

During our visit to MoMA, Liz and I were trying to figure out what floor we wanted to go to next.  We were standing looking down onto the escalators criss crossing each other and I took a wide angle photo but it was not that interesting.  So I zoomed in a bit and saw this woman all alone on the down escalator looking at her phone.  So I started shooting and realized what was going to make this photograph, was to have other people visible at the exact same time. So then I was looking at both the up escalator on the right and at the opening showing the floor below, on the left.  I was rapidly shooting but saw both the small pedestrian on the lower left and the passenger on the up escalator on the upper right!  Click!  Got it!

 

An Interesting Juxtaposition

Do you see any interesting juxtapositions in this photograph?  This is one of the galleries of the Marcel Duchamp exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art.  I stopped and was looking around this corner of the gallery and I saw something that I couldn't believe, and it was about the shadow of one of the objects in the gallery, on the wall over near the guard!  I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it.  It was funny I thought, that the shadow was there and the guard would have no reason to be aware of the shadow's presence!  You can see the object hanging up at the top of the photograph that is creating the shadow on the wall next to the guard.  Just happenstance that the shadow would be where the guard chose to stand.

 

Marcel Duchamp at MoMA

About 20 years ago Liz read a biography of Marcel Duchamp.  When she came to visit us a few days ago, she happened to look for what exhibits were at MoMA.  She was stunned to see that the Marcel Duchamp exhibit was on, and so we both took the train to the city for the day and we spent a wonderful time together at MoMA.  She asked me to take this photograph of her to have as a mememto.  It was an amazing exhibit. There has not been a large exhibit like this since 1973.

I have been doing a lot of selfies recently, haven't I?  But I did want to do one of us at MoMA.  We took this photo in front of the large display that shows what exhibits are on display at this time. What a great father/daughter day we had, just hanging out!

 

Sea Cliff Yard Sale

Every spring Sea Cliff has a village wide yard sale.  Residents sign up and pay to have their homes put on a map that shows where the sales are.  So Liz thought it would be fun to go around and and just see what was for sale.  But it would take a long time to get from place to place, so we decided to cruise around on bikes to cover a lot of ground.  So this is one of the yards that had so much more stuff than any other houses!

So here we are on our bikes.  Notice the Stetson hat Liz has on?  She bought that at the first house we stopped at!  She saw it, and tried it on and it fit perfectly! So then she asked the price and the guy said "Five dollars!"  That's a bargain!  The guy said that the hat belonged to his grandfather!  So it is in good hands from now on.

 

Dunkin' Donuts at the Beach. Again!

This is almost a familiar view of Hempstead Harbor.  We discovered a bench under a tree that I had photographed so many times and thought it would be a better place to have our coffee and donuts, because on a sunny day, we would be in the shade of the big tree, instead of sitting in the car.  So today, with Liz, we went to Dunkin' and got coffee and donuts and tried out our new spot to sit and have coffee!

I didn't have a tripod with me so I took this photograph of Liz and Kathy sitting on our new favorite bench with their tea and coffee.  The donuts are long gone!