Bouquets to Art - de Young, San Francisco

A couple weeks ago I took a solo trip to the de Young Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco. I had been to de Young before but this trip was solely for visiting the Bouquets to Art. I was missing Minnesota and the MN Institute of Art usually hosts a similar exhibition in last week of April, the Art in Bloom. So, while I was setting out to experience something new in a new place, the trip was instigated by a very warm place in nostalgia.  

I came back with almost a thousand pictures between my DSLR and mobile pictures and it was an enormous quantity to share them all without them loosing their intensity. So, I picked a few that really spoke to me and also served as a good inspiration for trying to create a vignette in our home around the art work that we love. Hope these set of pictures inspire you to create with a new perspective...

Long weekend getaway...

We went to Milwaukee Art Museum on Saturday; it’s a building that I wanted to see ever since my friend Paul described it to me about two years ago. It’s a magnificent building, beautiful architecture and well executed. I wish, I could be a part of something this magnificent some day in my life. Just seeing this building made me rethink about where I am going and where do I want to go in this lifetime.


This entrance cum front lobby sets up false expectations for the art work that you are about to see. The art museum in itself is evolving, it has far to go when it comes to a good collection or may be I need to develop my taste to be able to appreciate that kind of art.
Any ways, just seeing this piece of architecture was well worth the trip but that was not all.
That afternoon, on our way to Chicago downtown we lost our way and ended up at the Bahai temple. Its main building is the intricate Persian-style tracery with nine exterior pillars depicting the symbols of other religions.
It was what DH called divine intervention. It was just meant to be. I have visited the Bahai temple (Lotus temple) in New Delhi, India and I was so surprised to see so many similarities between the two places and yet they were so distinct. This place is so clam that even your thoughts seize to rush and they settle down. No rustling, no hum, no music, no chirping…if you ever get a chance to visit, do so and I am sure you won’t regret it.



More soon…