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Minneapolis Institute of Art: Part 1

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You know how some days you wake up and you just feel like the day is not going to go your way, that was TODAY… bullshit and nonsense, I do NOT need right now. I have a life to build here, little busy.

I’m still adjusting to the slight time difference between Seattle and Minneapolis (2 hours) and I woke up late… I hate waking up late… I’m an obligate morning person and anything past 9am feels like I’m being cheated out of my morning. Ugh… I woke up at 10:30! Not cool Jenna, not cool! Breakfast felt like lunch, lunch was non-existent! All my food plans, right out the frosty window…

Type- A? Me? Heavens no… why do you ask?

After getting my self back together (deciding to eat both meals), I decided that rather than be angry with myself… I would wander over to the closest museum to lighten the mood. GREAT IDEA.

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I live within 10 minutes of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. I’ll be honest, I wasn’t really expecting much… I mean, a free museum can’t be THAT big, or have works from some of my favorite artists? Right? HA! Idiot.

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I was blown away. It is 3 floors of non-stop artistic hits, I was/am in love.

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Degas, Picasso, Mondrian, Lichtenstein, Warhol…and Monet. I love Claude Monet and they had 2!

 

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An Evening Moutainscape, 1909 by Marsden Hartley

 

I started with my favorite, Modern Art.

Located on the expansive 3rd floor, I solemnly wandered.

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Frank by Chuck Close

I was overwhelmed by the sheer volume of works on display.

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Your Dog, 2002 by Nara Yoshitomo
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Some/One, 2005 by Do-ho Suh
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Tempest in Yellow, 1956 by Dorothea Tanning

I even gasped at the sight of this bust; I’ve never seen Raffaelo Monti in person. Just in pictures. I think his work is astoundingly delicate and ethereal…

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Veiled Lady, 1860 by Raffaelo Monti

With only 30 minutes left until closing time… I quickly snapped a few other shots of things I found visually interesting.

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I’ll have to come back for a better look at the whole collection. I was just so unprepared! Next time I will get up early and let it the art devour my whole day.

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I did squander a few minutes to get in a badass selfie… worth it.

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My Incandescent Crown, 2015 Jenna Hutson

There She Goes… to Minneapolis?

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Okay… Alright… I’m moving again.

I just got back to Seattle, writing love letters to the city that birthed (gross word choice, I  know) my  adulthood… and in a flash, off to a new city.

I love Seattle, I really do. It will always be the home that I built for myself over the last ten years. I’ve lived in a multitude of neighborhoods and grown-up as the city became a tech empire. Yes Seattle, I remember when rent was cheap, and South Lake Union was an industrial heap.

Now the city hums with an Amazonian buzz and Microsoft murmur. Kids with too much money to blow have tripled rent and killed some of the punk rock, industrial undercurrent that fueled the Seattle grunge. I suppose they have done a lot of good as well, but gentrification seems swallows culture… and Seattle is feeling the squeeze.

Is this why I’m leaving? Pfft…of course not. I will happily live in a fancy loft and peruse gastro pub menus galore. I’m leaving because I can. I’m young, lustful for life, and lack any true anchor to any single place. I am free to travel as I please… so I will.

But Why Minneapolis? Seriously? WHY??….W H Y?!

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I’ll admit, it’s really not my first choice (New Zealand) but I’ve never lived in the mid-west. Perhaps it’s a worthwhile pursuit to see what middle America has to offer. People have to live there for a reason, right?

There is a perfect opportunity for me to pack my bags and just go. So I am.

I promise to write often and build some lovely photo sets for my loyal following, all 3 of you.

Bye for now Seattle, I’ll be back soon. ❤

Mandatory Reading: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari

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Hey Aziz, I am so sorry. Sorry that I underestimated your skill as a writer, sociologist, and absolutely crush worthy dude. Seriously, my bad. I picked up your book expecting it to be a hilarious jaunt through the modern mess of dating, and you know what…it was, BUT while lulled into a sense of giggly curiosity…he blinded me with SCIENCE!

What…whaaa…where did all of this sexy science come from? I started reading it for a laugh and wound up fully enthralled by your thorough dissection of the way that our constant connection to technology has expanded our romantic universe, for better and worse.

Everyone between the ages of 16 and 66 should read this book, if only to set a base knowledge of the do’s and don’ts of dating. My eyes have been opened to the myriad of mistakes I’ve made over the years, while somehow remaining ‘date-able’ to the male public at large. To any men that I have texted immediately seemingly in an overly-eager fit, I was probably just trying to curb the likely conclusion that I would forget to text you back and feel like a jerk. Sorry for that, misunderstanding rectified… I’ll just set an alarm or something to remind me in 48 hours.

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Aziz, I cannot thank you enough. My romantic endeavors are forever changed by your enlightening book. I feel like perhaps I am a little late to the party/ bandwagon, but I assume there is plenty of room to pile on the praise.

Look me up if you’re ever in Seattle, but like a week in advance so I can properly allow time to tame my excitement.

J

Cartoonery; COOKIES!

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Hello…I love cookies…cookies

I tried my first recipe from the Momofuku Milk Cookbook...

All hail Christina Tosi!

I attempted the Corn Cookies last night and although I was concerned that they would be uninteresting ..or too corny… or whatever silly nonsense it is that keeps us from venturing into the unknown, they are anything but lackluster. I tasted the batter, I always do, it was sweet and complex with a good amount of salty aftertaste. Like the crunchy corn bread crust that sometimes forms at the edges of the pan. You know as well as I do that is always the best part of the cornbread. I was sold. It was on. All the best idioms! I cannot recommend this recipe enough!

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Get yourself a copy of that book. Seriously. Now. 

I added a little bit of glaze just to add a hint of strawberry. Here’s a quick run down if  you want to try it;

Strawberry Glaze

2 tablespoons powdered strawberry *

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tablespoon strawberry jam

milk to thin to desired consistency

Whisk together all the ingredients together in a bowl until smooth. Do as you see fit… I plopped it into a small ziplock bag and snipped the corner. Zig-zag, swirl, or go all Jackson Pollock on those cookies while still warm. They will take a few hours to dry so the glaze is no longer sticky.

*Powdered strawberries? Yes. Taking a page from Tosi, I grabbed some freeze dried strawberries from my local Whole Foods and used a mortar/pestle to grind them into a powder. Took 20 seconds at most. Worth the extra effort to boost the strawberry flavor in your glaze and give you that insane shade of crazy Barbie pink.

Which recipe to try next…