Day Eight: Incorporating History into Modern Reality

While on my random search through the storage unit, alllllll the way in the back, in an old portfolio of my father's (he was a photographer, more to be explained in another post), I found this fantastic picture of my mother that my dad took around the time they first met.

As soon as I saw it I knew I needed to frame it and put it up immediately, and so that's exactly what I did! Here's the finished product!

What's hilarious is that when I showed my mom what I did, she thought it was ME! =-) So I told her NO! That's you! And then she remembered and we laughed about it... That made me think that maybe I need to take a photo like this and compare the two!

What are your thoughts about using your own personal history as artwork or as inspiration for artwork in your own modern reality??

I Stumbled Upon....

ART!!!! Whilst out and about last week downtown, I came across an art gallery in a store at 205 South State street and wandered inside to see what was going on (especially since it is free) and I found some awesome artwork!! I then learned that this exhibit is a part of the "Pop-Up Art Loop" with the Chicago Loop Alliance, and there are many more all over downtown and they just pop-up in random stores that are currently unoccupied. The name of this exhibit is called " Love Flows Both Ways: street culture x contemporary art" and it is definitely worth a visit if you are in Chicago for the holidays since it is still running. Click here and check out all the exhibits they have going on currently, as there are quite a few. Just so you know the exhibits are all free to the public and open Monday thru Saturday 11:30am-5:30pm, which makes it that much more of a reason to go, soooo what are you waiting for?!?!?! Go! Explore! Enjoy! Here are some of the pieces that caught my eye, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do , though the photos give the pieces absolutely no justice, sorry about that!! =-) Until next time...