OK

Rarely known to sign even the front of her paintings, sometimes Georgia would sign the back of her paintings with a simple "OK". She also rarely wore jewelry alongside her black, nun-like habits.

Since one of my own designs incorporates the "OK" (remember my "brOKen" bracelets), you can imagine how thrilled I was to learn she wore an "OK" brooch given to her by Alexander Calder. Of course reading this lead me to ask who is Alexander Calder? You've likely seen his big metal sculpture or his large colored, asymmetrical mobiles. He also made jewelry or as it has been called, "wearable art".

I can barely believe I did not know about Alexander Calder's jewelry before now. It turns out that earlier this year the Met hosted a show exhibiting 90 of his 15000 jewelry pieces. If only I'd have known earlier....

I found out they made a limited edition book that cataloged the exhibit, and went to Amazon to check it out. *cough, cough, ka-ching!* $478 disappointed out-of-print-dollars later, I went and cried about it to Cody. Why do I always innocently sniff out the most expensive books?

Anyhow, there's a travelling exhibit of 100 pieces in San Diego now through the 3rd of January. It's going to
Grand Rapids after that. Anyone want to road trip or meet me in MI?