blood lines.

Emily's birthday is coming up tomorrow. In celebration, Alison, Nasim, Emily and I commemorated the big day on Saturday. We started with a trip to the Corcoran. Emily really wanted to see the new Taryn Simon exhibit, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII. It was fascinating!  I am all about storytelling and Simon does this amazingly. She took pictures of bloodlines around the world, starting with one person in the family and then photographing and showing the descendants and then told their story. The stories she chose were so varied and interesting. One was about this man who was chosen to be the body double of Saddam Hussein's son, Uday. Another was about feuding families in Brazil and another about albinos in Africa. If you are in the DC area you should absolutely go check it out, so worth it!