seagulls playing soccer in the rain

Milwaukee, 4/26/09
I drove passed the seagulls on a soccer field in a park along North Ave.
It rained most of the day. The photo of the daughter and father with the duck umbrella made things a little better.
I saw an amazingly beautiful piece by A. Morgan and some not so interesting work at the Haggerty Museum of Art (exhibition: Current Tendencies Ten Artists from Wisconsin). I told Ashley that I think grad school has ruined my brain; in both negative a positive ways. Because 4 or 5 years ago I would have really dug bugs pinned to the wall, but now I really am left asking why, in so many ways. On the topic of Jennifer Angus's piece, Detail from A Worm’s Eye View, why should I be interested in this 'forest'? What am I being told about bugs and wall paper? And mainly, formally Angus's piece, as well as most of the other work in the show, failed to keep my attention or aesthetically please me. The one exception was Sonja Thomsen's installation of photos, some of which were bound in the notepad form, where the viewer could take one.
On the way home I stopped off route I-94 to take a photo of a billboard and subsequently found a property with abandoned houses and buildings in various states of char and decay.


On Ashley's piece:

ceiling
falling

on the cement

it's made of ash, dust and toothpaste and
pressed together by language:
time though lines
words have place
and history

dancing stars above our domesticity