Mojibakeru designed by Shigeru Ishitsuka and Misako Kirigaya

Mojibakeru is derived from the Japanese words “moji” (character) and “bakeru” (to change). Cute and wonderful toys that shape-shift and transform from Japanese pictograms into animals….”a tangible demonstration of the historical link between symbol and object.” These colorful characters are on view now as a part of the super cool exhibit Talk To Me at MoMA.

A painted glass goose - an example of Symbolist art. This was on display at the Corning Museum of Glass. The goose is a detail from a larger free-standing painted glass screen, depicting all kinds of beautiful elements in nature and in the imagination. It is a piece from the Romantic period in art and literature from the 1890’s. The description next to the piece read, “Symbolist artists were interested in the primitive and exotic. They explored dream states and unusual forms of spiritualism. These artists tried to depict emotions, sensations, and other aspects of the non-visible world. Their interest in the intangible influenced the development of abstraction in 20th-century art.”

I am into that..