May 2 - May 8, 2016

During this past week, things were fairly uneventful, sans making some homemade tomato sauce and veggie lasagna. The week ended though with a quick, yet really wonderful trip home to Boston to celebrate my nephew, Matty receiving his First Communion, and my most amazing mom for Mother's Day. We landed early on Friday, so Matt and I hit up our old stomping grounds, working for the day at District Hall and grabbing a rice bowl from Bon Me. Gosh, if Bon Me ventured to Durham someday soon I'd be a very happy girl!

Our ventures took us through the Seaport, which is an entirely new view since we left with all of the new buildings popping up, toward the North End, where we stumbled upon a really cool new art installation on the Rose Kennedy Greenway by Chinese contemporary artist and activist, Ai Weiwei. His "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads" is pretty much how it sounds: a circle of 12 giant bronze animal heads that represent the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac surrounding the Ring Fountain in the middle of the city. It's a really cool and interesting contrast to the city backdrop - made for some interesting pics.

If you're interested, check out more about Ai Weiwei in Artsy.net's 2016 Year in Art feature.

About the project:

If you take a look through my hard drives, you'll find folders and folders of photos, most of which never truly have had their time in the limelight. These photos are the result of some random moments that I caught while my camera happened to be close by, photowalks from around town, a beautiful instance where the sunlight hit a subject just right, but none of these times warranted a dedicated blog post or feature story on my website. Many of these photos I really like, but once they're snapped they sadly get lost in the digital abyss to be found months later when I sift through my earlier work just for fun.

To bring some of these lost images to the surface and make sure they get their time to be enjoyed by others, I'm embarking on a journey this year to share my weeks in photos with you all. Not only will this give me a platform to post the random beauty I see in the world during my day-to-day, but will also encourage me to once again bring my camera with me everywhere so I can be sure to catch those visions once I see them.

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