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(thanks, Danny!)

(Gunnel Wåhlstrand Born 1974 “Looking at Paintings”. (d))

1.) through solitary appreciation

(Photo by Hendrick van Leeuwen)

2.) by turning your back to it (and just being within its presence, maybe?)

(Photo by Jose Manuel)

3.) being overwhelmed and in awe

4.) running past it, hand-in-hand of course

5.) being pretentious in analyzing it (showing off what you recall of Visual Culture 1100, maybe even 1200 if you’re lucky)

6.) making fun of it (especially when you fail to understand it, pft!)

Today will consist of museum adventures with two of my favorite people, my baby brother and baby niece. I’ve a feeling the greater portions of the museums will be alternately experienced by #4 and #6– which makes these two the perfect gallery companions.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY.

Oh, what a lovely month.
xo

Dosei Kono, 1657, Osaka, Japan

Charles Dickens eat your heart out

Adding this collection to my Winter inspiration, A Tale of Two Cities 2.0. Other seasonal mental notes from the past year: Tuscan Mom, Straight up Julie Delpy, Urban Safari (I assure you this was more Out of Africa than Jumanji), Martha’s Vineyard Lauren Hutton, 90′s Meg Ryan/Gwenyth Paltrow. All easier done than said.

Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Jamie Bell and (last but most definitely not least) Emile Hirsch for Prada’s FW 12 show; the most dapper of runway villains, if you ask me.

+ Feature photo via The Sartorialist

Photographed by Steven Meisel
Italian Vogue, April 1991

Classic.