Got to moms around 10 last night.. We all went down to the hot tub and steam room.. such a nice place mom lives in !
Diane and I woke ealry and had a good workout in moms buiklidngs excellent gyn,. then walked ot the store for coffeee and flowers. Mom woke a bit later. It was gorgeous outside and in the 40’s .. not what you usually exopect in inneapolis in Jan. We took advantage of the beutiful weather to take a wal outside and inside.. We walked out over the missisippi on a foot/bike bridge acoress from moms.. what a view !
then we took a walk throgih the beutiful but eerily empty Riverwalk buldings connected to moms place.. this was a developers dream .. and old historic buldling with beeutiful interiers.. wonderful office spaces and common rooms and 90 persent of it is empty. Must have been caught in the commercial realestate bust arodn covid.. THere were still cool things ot see.. the edding dress place, an analog synthesizer store.. and.. I think thats about it for retail even with 4 floors of office space. THere’s is a very nice ope coffee house on the first floor called FRGMNT that always seems busy.. lots of folks workig there.. it had a great vibe.. the only humans in this otherwise empty place
Later on I the day we decided to check out soemthing non.of the three of us had seen. We chose the Weisman Museum on the U of Mn campuss about a mile away.. It was in a gorgeous Fran Ghery bulding. The collecttion there was very cool modern art.. lots of it political.
one of my favs whas a peice by Ghery imself.. called ‘fish’.. made all of plate glass .
it was inspired by the carp Gherys’ grandmoher kept in the bathtub on the weeks she was making gefilte fish.. how weird is that ?!?!
the rest of the collection was really excellent. ots of it on the theme of racial jsutice..
my favorite peiece was a an installation called Pidicord Apts.,. it looked liek the inside of an old run down apartment building in Chicago that once had existed.. dome of the material was from that building.. but most was new and made to look old. The space was inside a shippoing container (I think). but felt much larger inside due to forced prospective of slanted walls. The walls had doors that had been the diirs of peoples apartmenta, When you bent over to put your esr tot eh door, your body brokle a light beam.. and a recording started.. in one a barkig dog, on another and argument.. in another the radio playing.. an d so one.. it was really beautifully done, I kept comign back to it
another part had a touching piece about real ads people took out in papers after the civil war lookign to reunite with their familes after emancipation
we spent an hour or so looking through the collection
one peice had three sets of latitude and longitudes on it . .. one turned out to be the artists birth place.. in Hartford CT and the other was in Amsterdam where she studied
the students workign at the museum were super nice.. we spotted one of them on a poster in teh museum.. and he was kind enough to do a reenactment for us !
Time to head back to moms..
Tonight we went to the First Friday happy hour.. It was a good chance to meet some of moms freinds in the building..
they were super nice people.. and I know they enjoy hanging out with mom
Nice seeign what a great situatio Mom has here.
nite all, nite sam
-me