Gallery Overflow (Photo Post)
These past two weeks I had the great privilege of visiting the Houston Museum district on two separate occasions. On one random Thursday, my friends and I decided to take a day trip Downtown to the Museum of Fine Arts. It was a fun experience, since we hadn't spent much time together since our trip to Austin and our time at the Blanton Museum of Art.
First up, we saw the special exhibit on show, "Floating World: A.A. Murakami."
Dozens of floating plasma “lightning” tubes flickered and click while evoking a field of crickets.
Adolph Alexander Weinman. Descending Night. 1915.
Adolph Alexander Weinman has my all time favorite pieces in the MFAH, every time I visit his work I must stop to take it all in.
Still from Anicka Yi's digital video Each Branch of Coral Holds Up the Light of the Moon.
The next week, my mom's company held a "Night at the Museum" event for employees and their families a the Houston Museum of Natural Science. They do something like this almost every year, but it had been a long time since we went altogether, so I was very excited. I absolutely adore the science museum.
I love shells, and aquatics a lot so I had to document these for some creative inspiration...
HMNS also holds the interactive "Death by Natural Causes" exhibit, which has always been so much fun, even a little gross at times!
Three bat dioramas in the Morian Cabinet of Curiosity
I think coming here so much as a little kid really helped shaped my love for the weird.
The Evelyn & Herbert Frensley Hall of African Wildlife has immersive, life-sized depictions of African biomes with over 70 different species.
It's funny to be in this exhibit at night and pretend these animals can come alive at any moment.
There's even a hall with LIVE animals, which was really exciting too. We saw stingrays, and so many cute little creatures like the fennec fox.
Thank you for looking! I've had some trouble finding time and motivation to write here, but being able to get out to such beautiful places really gets the creativity flowing- even if I'm just taking pictures on my phone. :)