I am thoroughly enjoying pretend photography on instagram.
This is a photo taken of an art installation at the Blanton Museum of Art.
The Blanton is on the University of Texas campus and is FREE for students every day, and to the general public on Thursdays. The museum cafe is the lunch spot. The chef and I joke that one day I am going to just sit down and eat all the pieces of cheesecake by myself after finals. It is one of my very favorite places.
Although I had visited the Blanton many times before, I had somehow missed the fantastic installation by Brazilian artist Cieldo Miereles; How to Build Cathedrals. I really don't know how, it is quite large.
Anyway, on this visit to the Blanton with my three little sisters in tow (poor things, I don't think they were well amused), I managed to lose one of them and found her inside the piece. The installation is constructed of 600,000 coins, 800 communion wafers, 2000 cattle bones, 80 paving stones, and black tulle. It is absolutely beautiful. The piece, according to the blurb next to it, is supposed to examine the relationship between economic interests and the proselytizing of Catholicism in Latin America. Love.
YOU should stop by the Blanton soon and check it out.
