I’ve been feeling some frustration with my writing lately, like the form doesn’t quite fit the flow. I felt this itchiness a year ago, right before my writing overflowed into a new container- the empty shell of a newsletter I had set up years ago. It is so easy to focus on the gap between where I am and where I want to be […]
Read MoreWhen you’re sitting in your parked car, alone, in a pocket of quiet hidden between the commute and the grocery store, taking a moment to check in with how you’re doing, to get absorbed in your thoughts and also the big puffy clouds drifting across the sky, and you look at the car next to you and see a woman (another mom?) taking […]
Read More“You are all so humble,” he said, looking a bit confused. Just then, the Zoom breakout room ended, and I had to swallow what I had been about to blurt out, which was, “No, we’re all women.” In our conversation, where he had shared the pleasure of trying new online projects and seeing which ones found an audience, we had described […]
Read More“What I bring to the table is rich.” Those words are from Detra, the latest subject of a Humans of New York series. Her words keep sticking with me. They reveal a woman who knows her own worth, who isn’t waiting for permission to love how she shows up in the world. This past week, I’ve been trying her words on for size […]
Read MoreI’ve had the curious experience recently of going outside with a question, and getting an answer. Yesterday, I was sitting by a river, feeling creatively stuck and wondering what would help get me unblocked. Bam! Three separate flocks of honking geese flew over me, one after the other. Oh, I needed community, people to create […]
Read MoreI felt like I was in a David Hockney painting this week. My son and I spent a morning in the outdoor pool in our local park, and somehow we were the only ones there (besides the three lifeguards looking out for us). The turquoise water in the pool was still, except around my splish splashing toddler in lemon swim trunks and his […]
Read MoreI love getting up close and personal with a painting. At a distance, this painting of three cakes on display is simple, and quite satisfying in that simplicity. The artist Wayne Thiebaud came back over and over to this theme of commercially-produced Americana desserts over the course of his career (fun game: if you see […]
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IMAGINIBUS is a blog about playing in museums, with a focus on imagination and creativity.
This blog is a place to be inspired to use your imagination around artworks—and to see the art of your daily life.
When we engage creatively with art, museums can become playgrounds and laboratories to experiment with attention, mindfulness, and imagination. Interesting things happen when we use that museum gaze to look at our daily lives like a work of art.
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Hello! I'm Marina Gross-Hoy, a writer, Museum Studies PhD candidate, and mother currently living in Quebec. I take playing in museums very seriously.
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