Joyful Jumping Jubilation of June!!!

Wahooooo, yesterday I went to see the excellent Jean Paul Gaultier exhibit at the De Young Museum in San Francisco -- the perfect inspiration for a life of creative freedom!  If you're anywhere close to the SF Bay Area, I am strongly recommending taking in this show. The creativity and humor blew me away completely, setting me up perfectly for what is going to be an AMAZING month.

Yes, June is all jubilation.  June is all jumping for joy.

Naturally, the title of this post is one part snarky alliterative nod to the Manifesto Movement of May, another part acknowledgement of the NaBloPoMo theme of the month, and the majority one big jumping-around Yahoo: I am not working for the entire month of June.  That is, I'm not going to my job for the entire month of June.

Which really does call for multiple exclamation points.

!!!!!!!!

I woke up a little sore this morning, with but a faint (and truly frightening) echo of the old pain, and thinking now that perhaps I over-did it yesterday in my glee at being able to hike in the woods with Burns and then hours at the museum, proving that really, I'm not ready and really, I need this time off to rest, which is what I'll be doing today and the next day and so on through the 30th of this month.

Truth is: I'll be working my ass off in June.  

Just not at my j-o-b.

favorite dress in the show, stunning.June is the month in which I'll lay the foundations for the life I really want, the life that JP Gaultier inspires, a life of fun and freedom and just endlessly unfolding creativity in every single detail.  At left is my favorite dress in the show, and there were so, so, so many things I LOVED in the show.

Now mind you, I wouldn't call myself a fashionista.  I've got a modest closet, really, and as a country mouse, do tend to favor the practical.  I am a person who desires a uniform with a limited number of variations.  So give me jeans, striped t-shirt and flats: I'm good.  A skirt, a blouse, a cashmere cardigan: I'm good.  A smock with big pockets, a pair of tights and espadrilles: I'm good.  Really, I'm no clothes horse, I can't really afford that, but I do love clothes and I do love fashion and I do love stuff.

What I came away with from the exhibit was a feeling of the exuberance that comes from making your art and sending it out into the world, to delight, to confound, to ravish other people.  And just so very much joy.  Joy in creation, joy in expression, joy in joy itself.

Hands down: best museum exhibit ever.

The show's probably not for everyone.  Certainly I don't think my mother-in-law, with whom I attended, will be sporting any of the weird Blonde Ambition bondo-corsets anytime soon, but then again, neither will I, or the vast majority of the population.  That's not what matters.  

What matters is the explosion of all that talent, all that love of life expressed in so many fabrics, feathers, metals, styles and in delightful audio-visual tricks that elevate what's possible, what should be expected, in a museum. 

She and I, as different as we are, my mother-in-law and I, were both equally delighted, equally starry-eyed afterward, equally so, so happy to have been there, to have seen it, to have experienced it. And this morning, still in my modest little uniform (capri-length yoga pants, oversized ribbed tank, belted long Anthro sweater, slippers), I'm still dreaming vivid dreams of beauty, thanks to JPG.

June is the month I'm figuring it out, how to have more joy in every moment, how to revel in every detail in my surroundings, how to make my own art without apology and move it out into the world, to delight, to confound, to ravish.  

And that, my friends, is worth some jumping around.  

I'm jumping in, both feet (figuratively, naturally, since jumping is currently physically verboten), and jumping around for joy.  And clapping.  And laughing.  And working on making everything in my life the best expression of everything I have inside: a whole bunch of stories.  And a big fat dose of joy.

It's June: Jump Around!

A few more shots from the visit.  <sigh> so good.

detail, favorite dress. knit!!!!!!

mural details

Comments

[Kathy]

It sounds like you had an amazing time. I am really impressed with the artwork you shared. Very cool!

Kathy
http://gigglingtruckerswife.blogspot.com/

[Journey of Life]

So be it! Let's jump around! I loved fashion. I am all fashion :-) but I do like yoga pant at home :-)