This past week the gorgeous Artist Alberte Bernier gave me the treat of a visit to the Museum of Modern Art. MoMA as it's known to those of us who have been going there or hearing about it for years is one of those New York places that is always a joy to experience. After our visit to this gorgeous museum, we had lunch at Gallagher's Steakhouse, another wonderful New York place that I've written about in these pages before and that I will again in a future post, but for now I want to focus on MoMA and the beautiful experience there that day.
As we began our visit, I told Alberte that on my way to meet her I had been remembering that my Mother had always loved MoMA. She loved New York, and had lived there for so many years before I was born, and we would take trips there as a family and sometimes just the two of us to do special things and see special friends, and when I moved there after college she often visited me and we'd make plans to do some of the things she loved to do that I loved also.
MoMA was one of the things that I grew up knowing about, and visiting there feels in many ways like being home. Although I grew up in a New England farmhouse built in 1720, the art and design that filled that house were an eclectic mix that included antiques as well as refurbished and reupholstered vintage pieces and inspiration from places like MoMA. When I spoke about this with Alberte while we were visiting there together, she said that was just like YES Gallery, and I laughed and said it was and it is, and that it was so much of what I learned from and experienced with my Mother that is reflected in the way I design and create installations in spaces today.
As I begin to move into the next chapter of developing a very wonderful and special project, visiting MoMA and being reminded of my Mother and our shared history together was so wonderfully right and special. Bringing the best of modern art and design and the feeling of both old New York and the Manhattan of present day into this new project will make it a very special one, capturing the experiences of my own history as well as the history of the places and spaces where my family and my deepest memories rest and can come to life as they are renewed.
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