It’s Almost-Friday and National Tater Tot Day. Also, Candlemas / Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil says 6 more weeks of winter but Staten Island Chuck, who has a better accuracy record, says we’ll have an early spring.). Birthdays: James Joyce, Stan Getz, Raven Wilkinson, Farrah Fawcett, Ina Garten, Brent Spiner. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m voting for warm weather, sooner rather than later, with Exaltum Mimosa Gold.
Reminder: on 2/3 we’re doing Edition 8 of the Picture Challenge, which is detail from Women of Shangri-La, 2002, by Yayoi Kusama. You can see the entire installation if you scroll down here (I cannot post it for copyright reasons). Extra reading: Yayoi Kusama at Wikipedia, Dot on: The rise and rise of Yayoi Kusama at Thames and Hudson, ‘Determined to have her story told’: Retrospective casts new light on Yayoi Kusama’s seven-decade career at CNN, Yayoi Kusama: the world’s favourite artist? at The Guardian, The Infinity Experience With Yayoi Kusama at TheViewDeck.
And for those of you who like to plan ahead, see Scent of the day ~ Friday community projects 2023, where I’ll try (but obviously sometimes fail) to always have the next five or six weeks mapped out in advance.
Note: top image is Ascension of Polka Dots on the Trees [cropped] by Phil Roeder at flickr; some rights reserved. (Note: this was taken at New York Botanical Garden in 2021, but Yayoi Kusama has wrapped trees in many cities since 2002, or possibly earlier.) Bottom image is detail from English: Yayoi Kusama Exhibition via Wikimedia Commons, some rights reserved.
