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city sewing
The thing is that the neon looks stitched onto the sign, which seems appropriate for a sewing machine store.
Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.26.2023
butt
I was starting to think I’d hit the photographic wall – I was uninterested in making photos and when I did get myself out to shoot, the results were not particularly interesting. I was about to decide to get worried about it.
Then, I went to Dallas and on a quiet Sunday morning forced myself to get out and look at the neighborhood near my hotel. And that’s how I happened to see a window display of butts. And the light traffic on that Sunday morning made it very easy to make a u-turn to get back to them.
Now, I may still be sort of slumpy, but the opportunity to photograph some butts did make me feel a little better about the whole situation.
(And as an added, and amusing, benefit, this gave me the chance to use the word “butts” a lot more than I generally do in a post. So there is that.)
Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.26.2023
i can’t stop here
That levee in the background is hiding the Trinity River. And those metal panels in the front are (for some reason) partially hiding the levee.
Dallas, Texas
photographed 3.26.2023
abstract
At the Immersive Frida Kahlo exhibit, you can sit in white chairs while giant projections of art float in front of you, next to you, on top of you. It’s a trippy experience.
Lighthouse Artspace
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.8.2022
eye see you
Sometimes things that seem delightfully and coincidentally whimsical don’t hold up to even the tiniest bit of research. I was just enchanted that, from inside the lobby of the Joule Hotel in Dallas, I could look across the street and see the famous giant eyeball sculpture. I sort of felt like I was an important Art Explorer to have noticed this Most Amazing Thing.
And, then: Google struck. I learned that the sculpture, by artist Tony Tasset, was originally part of temporary installation in Chicago. And then in 2013, it was purchased and brought to Dallas by the Headington Companies. Who are the Headington Companies, you may be asking yourself? Turns out it’s who owns the…Joule Hotel.
So what I assumed to be coincidental whimsey is much more likely to be a purposeful placement of both pieces of art.
(And so this ends today’s installment of Another Time I Wasn’t As Smart As I’d Hoped. Thank you for your interest.)
Dallas, Texas
photographed 4.8.2022
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