Clio gets in on the action

Not long ago, Eleri and I made an outing to participate in the mobile projects for Creative Time's Democracy in America. This weekend, we all went to the Convergence Center, an exhibition of political work that we put on at the Park Avenue Armory as the culmination of the DiA initiative. The show was way too big to take in with a toddler and baby in tow, and Clio got a little sugar-crazy when I let her take 3 small bites of my ice cream sandwich (free from the "Anarchist Ice Cream Truck"), but we did get to experience some of the work and overhear two of the many speeches scheduled in the space.

Luckily, it's a big big place, and no one seemed all that bothered by Clio running through the corridors and in and out of the various historic rooms. Her favorite piece was a replica submarine that the artist Duke Riley took down the East River in a reenactment piece.


It had a small window to the inside at just the right height, and she spent a lot of time looking in it, running around, and looking in it again.
It was fun to be out in the world all together as a family, even if subway contruction meant we had to take three trains (and about an hour) to get home, putting Clio to bed waaaaaaay past her bedtime.