My local art museum

 Happy New Year Krilltopia!

I've been working on exploring Santa Fe, especially the museums and stores. My two main destinations have been the New Mexico Museum of Art and the bead store by the library, Glorianna's Beads. I've also just been going into any store that slightly interest me so that I know more about downtown. 

The New Mexico Museum of Art is one of the most iconic buildings downtown. Its been around forever for an American building but its a toddler in the centuries of Santa Fe. I've been to their gift shop before and I like their jewelry a lot. The museum itself is currently 80% a retrospective for an artist I had never heard of before, Gustave Baumann.

Baumann is an incredible artist, his work with color in his woodblocks use color in ways I cannot understand. It's amazing. And then it just keeps going on and on. Once you get to the largest gallery of the retrospective, you see Baumann's work go from very similar woodblocks that flood the space to native inspired illustrations and commercial work. The work stops admiring the landscape and people, becoming consumable media for those who live outside the state.

Upstairs continues this retrospective somehow, the curators should consider editing down their choices. The last two rooms have their 20th centaury art collection, mainly just real and imagined portraits of native people to sell to art collectors and the people back east who romanticize something they specifically drove out and destroyed in their own states. There is one portrait of a white teen boy (one of the few portraits where the sitter is named...) who won a contest and the reward was a trip to NYC and the painting. Second place's prize was a new saddle, which the boy would've preferred. Its a very cute portrait that hints at life at the time. 

The best part of the museum is the architecture, you often go through huge wooden doors and the exterior is a lovely example of Santa Fe's unique style. Overall the museum is alright but I probably won't go back unless they have a retrospective on someone I care about. Someone I'd actually want to see four galleries of. 

On the other hand, the bead store was a dream. I bought a pre-Eisenhower dime charm and some weird stuff for super cheap.... this is dangerous for me.

I've also stopped in some gift stores that were pretty lame and the toy store that is even more dangerous than the bead store because they sell their Calico Critters at full price... but those little guys remind me so much of The Boyfriend. 

That's all for my downtown exploration so far, one weekends worth. 

Bye!!

My baby is one year old!

 Today is the one year anniversay of this blog. I know some of my posts are from older than that bc I can time travel through the beautiful blogger "publish" button. To celebrate, I went to the free movie on mondays at the Jean Cocteau that I would've gone to anyways. Its the best because you just pay over priced for popcorn and topo chico. mmm

This blog is not as active as it once was, but it is an archive of what I was and what I have done. There's so many new things in my life, and so many things left behind. I hope I will spend many more years posting whatever forever.

Today's free movie was Lock, Stock and the Two Smoking Barrels or something like that. It was amazing. It was so much fun. It was me and the Coworkers and a whole bunch of the Cocteau usuals. The old men behind us were hilarious. One said "How's work?" and the other said "It's fine but someone pulled on my G string." They both had beards to their knees. This movie is the brownest movie ever, there is one part where someone is wearing a blue shirt and it basically blinded me. The movie is insane, the violence is over the top and yet not too much for the likes of me. And it is hilarious. Everyone is shooting and saying british nonsense I couldn't even understand. I pick up maybe 80% of the dialogue but that's okay, you don't need all of it. 

I was laughing non stop mainly just because of the Coworkers who provoke me. Its like this in the store too. I have become a person I would've obsessed over when I was more shy and jealous. How can she just laugh like that? How can she be so rude? How does she have friends to go to the movies with? I am blessed and cursed by retail and it has changed me. Hopefully in better ways but I don't care if not, I'm quite happy as this new self.

Anyways, happy birthday Krilling and Jamming, you are my masterpiece and have many more years left. Hopefully. 

Goodnight Krilltopia!

Photo Diary NJ/NY trip (so far)

 Currently visiting my loved ones in the other New states this week and next. I brought my Chinese spyware camera with me and now I feel obliged to use it. I miss these states. My official New state rankings:

1. New York

2. New Jersey and New Mexico, love these ones

and last place goes to New Hampshire because I hate it. Today I saw a cybertruck with a New Hampshire license plate and I was not surprised. 

Here are my digicam pics from this trip so far:

Cloisters:

I got this far into the Cloisters before remembering to use my camera

This is my fav piece in the Cloisters, its called Apes Building a Table and the medievals made it because its funny

chess pieces

boyfriend looking at stuff

carved ivory on crozier

a tapestry

another Cloisters fav

Back in New Jersey:

CB

Ginger bread house from Trader Joe's

Back in NYC:

some Whatever

Foggy window. Lamp on cheese wheel

internets fav japanese truck

Thats all the photos I took on the camera bc I genuinely forget its weighing down my pocket. Other things i saw includes like 9 different lines to get into random stores which I guess is just a downtown thing now. There is no store worth standing on a line outside for in my opinion, except like a food truck and that's still a maybe. I also bought some Shohei Ohtani tea and some expensive interior design magazines. If I spell anything wrong in this, you are reading too hard and also I am sorry. I'm going to go eat steak and use my new Hangyodon stationary. 

Bye! 🐟