May. 19th, 2025

lauradi7dw: (fish glasses)
Part of the Vincent exhibit was two rooms that represent the footprint of the Roulins' yellow house. Visitors can walk into the bigger room (that has three chairs in corners, presumably to give a sense of scale) and look into the other through a window.

Near Haymarket, there is a metal framed house (no walls) which is an installation by LaRissa Rogers. It called "Going to Ground," and is a reminder of the home a few yards away hundreds of years ago that belonged to Zipporah Potter Atkins, who is thought to have been the first Black woman to own her own home in Boston. This is the area where bellringers usually picnic and I've been watching people interact with it over the past year. When it was first opened, there was a wooden rocking chair that people (mostly kids) rocked in. The chair was removed for the winter and hasn't come back, but yesterday someone had brought his own folding chair and was sitting in the house reading. The artist's website has nice pictures from various angles.
https://www.larissamrogers.com/going-to-ground

As part of the Boston public art triennial there is a sort of house in a lobby of the main branch of the Boston Public Library.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/05/19/boston-public-art-triennial
lauradi7dw: (mullet headshot)
There was a woman on the Red Line this morning looking very miserable, covered in red spots. A quick search of duckduckgo images shows me the bare backs of adults with measles and the faces of kids. Some kind of privacy thing? I am hoping she had a bad encounter with poison ivy instead of a communicable disease. My tai chi instructor got poison ivy recently and ended up taking prednisone. I was surprised by this, thinking of rubbing pink stuff on skin rather than having a strong corticosteroid inside.
But here's a ten year old article suggesting it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4169084/
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