field trip #2
baby milo
Sorry – I’ve fallen a bit behind with the posts. Lots of fun adventures to share – so check back soon, I should have new material up by the end of the weekend.
In the meantime enjoy this funny animation that cousin Mackenzie sent our way!!
first field trip
Rachel and I thought we should be encouraging after Milo recently expressed an interest in art (see abstract expressionism post) – so today we all hopped in the car and drove up to Dia:Beacon.
We had good discussions for awhile …
But before long Milo decided he’d better take a nap.
we have liftoff!!!
With Herculean effort Milo achieved a solid inch of clearance today!
Milo had his 2nd checkup this week with Dr. Hopps.
He gained 2 pounds and grew 2 inches to his current dimensions of 10 lbs 3 oz and 23 inches. This put him in the 85 percentile for weight and off the chart for height!!
Thanks to big cousin Sam for the cool fire truck shirt hand-me-down!!
burrito
Moro (startle) reflex
abstract expressionism
I found this to be an apt description for the cultural production depicted below:
Technically, an important predecessor is surrealism, with its emphasis on spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation.
– taken from the wikipedia entry for abstract expressionism
It all started with a direct hit – inconceivably, Milo managed to pee all over me while somehow not getting a drop on himself. But this performance was just the preamble to a much more sophisticated work:
I really have lost it. Even Milo’s poop is too perfect to comprehend. Art history is littered with all kinds of piss and poop related endeavors. This particular work by Milo seems to resemble paintings by Jackson Pollock. Pollock himself was a notorious pisser – infamously peeing into Peggy Guggenheim’s fireplace. You might look at his drip paintings as a metaphor for pissing:
In the 70s, Andy Warhol produced ‘oxidation’ paintings – friends were asked to piss onto canvases prepared with copper paint.
There is Duchamps urinal, “Fountain“:
And Kiki Smith’s “Tale“:
And Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ“:
And Chris Ofili’s collage “The Holy Virgin Mary” which incorporates elephant feces.
And I’m sure many more …
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