I Found Inspiration in DC Despite Covfefe

Back in October I signed up to get timed tickets to visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The plan: a family road trip to D.C. to see the sights and explore this new museum. Back when I got the tickets, I was imaging a different president but alas, we were determined to make it a good trip.

We left NY around 8:30am on  a Friday and after roughly 4 hours on the road (with one pit stop), we arrived just in time to park the car near our AirBnB and zip back to the museum in a cab.

Let’s start with the line – it was DOWN the block. Hundreds of people were waiting outside. And I’d like to add a very diverse set of people. Young, old, black, white, American, foreign – though a lump formed in my throat at that moment I held back the emotion because my daughter and husband love to tease me for crying (emotional thugs!).

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Colorful in the City

When I learned about The Obliteration Room by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, I immediately put it on my “must do” list. The artist built a tiny house with a completely white interior. The entire space was void of any color – furniture, books, kitchen items, electronics, the walls, everything was white. Now, here is the fun part, visitors were invited to apply colorful stickers, specially designed by the artist, to everything and anything in the house!

The David Zwirner gallery where The Obliteration Room was on exhibit was not to far from my job so I set out during my lunch hour. Since I did wait until there were only two days before the close of the exhibit, I should have expected all the people waiting in line but it surprised me. I expected to run out of the office and into the gallery for a quick peek. Well, after an hour, I was welcomed into the “house” and greeted with an explosion of color. Dots were everywhere. I put my stickers all over, including on me.

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