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May 04, 2005

...slipping together...

This weekend after I went to Coney Island, I visited the American Folk Art Museum and I felt like everyone wanted to pat me on the head. (I wanted to say I just look young, but I am really older.) I felt like I was trespassing or something while I was at the museum, like I didn’t belong there. I wanted to say have you seen what people are doing out there. The art that is being made?! But I loved it nonetheless. I love the old signage, and weathervanes. I love weathervanes. It makes me feel like I am going to my Nana’s farm when I was young. I love the pure fun people had with a useful item. They also had pieces by Henry Darger. He created these strange worlds with girls running, flying, playing, and fighting. They are intricate and highly detailed little worlds that he created. Bizarre and disturbing, but beautiful.
My world is slipping together because I have noticed the world talking about what I am noticing. (Not that they are talking about it because of me!) I had a day of art on Saturday and I haven’t done anything like that in such a long time. Simply and purely for me. Not thinking about why or making excuses not to go. It felt good.
I first noticed the slip this morning when I was watching my favorite news show, NY1. They were interviewing the Fabricon Carousel Company who made the beautiful carousel in Bryant Park. The company and the park that I am totally smitten with. The new news story that I noticed was about a clean up of Coney Island. Which makes me really sad. I love the charm it has with its rough edges and simpleness. Nightclubs and restaurants? Coney Island is about hot dogs and cotton candy. I’ll have to go again soon and take more photos before it changes. Who are the changes good for? The community will have more money coming in, but will it end up pushing out the neighborhood? The same neighborhood that has made it the beautiful and strange little community it is.
The other weird thing that slipped together in my life was from the amazingly talented Penelope. I was writing this entry on the train and I got into work and checked my email and I got her newsletter and she just way a movie about Henry Darger called “In the Realms of the Unreal”.
And something clicked in my mind. Whatever path I am headed down it is the right one.

Posted by wendy at May 4, 2005 11:15 AM

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Posted by: johanna at May 6, 2005 09:07 AM