marie kondo has had ENOUGH of people calling her methods minimalism
image description: a screenshot of an instagram post from Marie Kondo, where she posted a picture of a bookshelf covered in colorful boxes, books, nicknacks, and plants. Her caption is: “Fun fact: KonMari is not minimalism! While minimalism champions living with less, I like to encourage people to live with items they truly cherish. Think of it this way: tidying is about what you want to keep in your life, not what you want to eliminate. Photo by @/belorenata. #MyKurashi” /end ID
God, I can’t tell you how much the “there’s not enough enrichment in my enclosure” joke has helped my mental health. Because, for some reason I can’t comprehend, pretending that I’m a zoo keeper caring for an animal (which is also me) just makes everything easier to comprehend. Like “Your head gets screwey when you’re apartment is messy” just doesn’t carry as much resonance as “The tiger becomes agitated when its enclosure is cluttered” because then I’ll be like, no shit? The tiger? I’ve gotta keep things nice and clean for the tiger.
Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color It is an exhibition that is now taking place at the Metropolitan Museum, in New York, and part of a work already known by professors Prof. Dr. V. Brinkmann, Head of the Department of Antiquity at the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, and Dr. U. Koch-Brinkmann, who reminds us that the statues of the ancient Grecco-Roman world were not white, as we are used to seeing nowadays in museums, but vivid and full of colors, and sometimes adornments and clothing (kosmos) , and which had entirely another connotation besides art.
