Way Cool

 The Renwick Gallery (part of the Smithsonian but not on the Mall) is one of my must-see museums in Washington. We saw an amazing exhibition by Ginny Ruffner called Reforestation of the Imagination. She has created these lovely glass tree stumps and came up with imaginary flowers, which were then animated in augmented reality by Grant Fitzpatrick. You download an app and then point your camera at the tree stump--and these wonderful flowers pop up that are not physically there; there is also an information button that tells you "facts" about the flowers. So very cool!

 There is also a show on view by artist Michael Sherrill, who creates these plants from ceramic and glass.

And finally, the Grand Salon space was filled by this work, Temple by David Best. This is an enormous room filled floor to ceiling with intricately filigreed raw wood carvings and structures. Visitors are given the opportunity to write on wooden plaques and leave them in remembrance of loved ones. Lots of these plaques and also photos...it was lovely and very moving.

If you are in DC, be sure to visit the Renwick.