we went uptown to see the ernesto neto installation "anthropodino" at the park avenue armory.
the pamphlet we were given says it is a "visceral and physically resonant experience of the body." a skin of layered mesh was stretched over wooden bones, and in places stretched into long, pendulous extrusions filled with aromatic spices. turmeric, clove, lavender, ginger and others. it was either like being inside some kind of sea creature or like visiting some sort of alien outpost. and it smelled wonderful. more pictures on flickr: here. afterwards, we stopped in at the marvelous ito-en tea shop on Madison. we sniffed just about everything on the wall of glass-bottled teas before settling on jasmine pearl, ginger tangerine sencha and cinnamon rosehip rooibos. i made the jasmine pearl in my beloved ingenuiTea once we got home and enjoyed its luscious scent of summer flowers and grass.
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