It’s Tuesday and the last day of January, plus National Backward Day. Birthdays: Alan Lomax, Jackie Robinson. RIP Cindy Williams. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing Ashes from Clandestine Laboratories. Tea at the moment is a floral blend: a pinch of Rose Black from Art of Tea, a pinch of Kusmi Violette, plus a spoonful from a mix of few Assams from Upton.
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 the teapot from The Me That I Adore (The Grand Set), 2013, Yayoi Kusama, made by the Nikko Company for the Mori Arts Center Museum Shop. Bottom image is detail from English: Yayoi Kusama Exhibition via Wikimedia Commons, some rights reserved.
