Fireman’s hat, 19th century, Japanese.
Funny that I found myself on the phone with an anesthesiologist talking about ancient Peruvian feathers after I saw Mood Indigo: Textiles from Around the World at Seattle’s Asian Art Museum. Funny because Mood Indigo felt like a guilty pleasure, an escape, a pain blocker, even before I got there.
It’s 89 pieces of cloth in every possible shade of blue from every time and every place. Given our excessively connected and visually saturated global existence, who wouldn’t want Mood Indigo‘s calming, transhistorical promise of blue immersion and also the possibility of infinite information that it makes available? Mood Indigo is both a diversion from the world and an invitation to lunge back into it…
