Last week, Mark and I went on a date in Ann Arbor.  I picked him up from work and we headed out in the rain to the an exhibition that was up at the U-M Institute for the Humanities, which was curated by our pal Amanda Krugliak.  The exhibition was PASTPERFECT/FUTURE TENSE at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery which was an installation of sorts, by photographer Richard Barnes.  He had plumbed the depths of the paleontology archives at the U-M and used that experience as fodder for the work in the exhibition. Here is an example of one of his photographs (which was of one of the artifacts included in the installation):

Then we did some browsing and window shopping.  I was dismayed to see palmistry model hands in URBAN OUTFITTER.  That’s right.  I sort of detest how their marketing people prey upon people’s genuine interests, then mass-market reproductions of vintage objects to college students.  However, this very occurrence is the inspiration for much of my artwork, so such finds just fuel the fire.  Observe:

To purge my disgust, I was prompted to look online for an authentic palmistry model hand and found one!  It’s on the way to my house from the UK as we speak.   I will surely be using this in the Amelia work as reference and have a drawing involving palmistry in the works.  Isn’t she a beaut?

We passed by a record shop and I snapped a pic of this sweet album cover.  I think hands, skulls, crystals and the like are following me.

We snooped in an antique book store and had a great dinner at one of our favorite A2 establishments: aut\ BAR.

In other news, an article I wrote on eating vegan in Budapest got published in the Nov/Dec issue of VegNews.  Mark Blogged about it on Irreverent Vegan.

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