Rain Room Smells So Good

This summer I've had the pleasure of working rAndom International's Rain Room as part of the MoMa staff. This is my first time working for MoMa and it has been a whirlwind of an experience to say the least.

I've utilized every bit of language skill I have which is mostly English and Spanish with some working knowledge of Italian and French, Il s'agit d'une file d'attente de six heures. I've met the artists and their wonderfully quirky PR person Natalie Kovaks whom I adore.

Me With Hannes Koch one of the Designers of Rain 

The First Lady and her daughters, Owen Wilson, Beyonce and JZ (Yes Blue Ivy was there too) and the mayor of New York, have all come to the Rain Room (Gaga you've got one more day, lets make it happen).

We've seen every photo pose imaginable: the superman, the namaste, the hair flip, the jumping shot, the make out pic and the YMCA. There have been ballet performances, a team of child ballroom dancers and students of Julliard & Alvin Ailey and two people trying really hard to pull of the Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey swan dive moment (lets just say #fail). 

I've personally witnessed 4 proposals (they all said yes), 2 engagement photo shoots, and a woman determined to get the best pic of her in her wedding gown standing in the rain (she waited in line with her husband for 4 hours in a floor length dress and reapplied her makeup once she got to the interior line).

People in awe, shock, amazement, confusion, angry people, people in tears, people so impressed they came back three times (yes they waited in line each time).

And now it's all coming to a close. This is the last weekend of the exhibition in New York. Tomorrow July 28th, Rain Room will be open until midnight. We're expecting 12 hour queues all day long. Today the first person in line got there at 3:30am!
I want to thank MoMa and rAndom for an amazing summer, I hope to work here in the future (cross your fingers). Being a part of this world of art, even in my small capacity has been a great privilege and I will always remember my summer at MoMa and Rain Room.

I've attached a youtube posted by rAndom Internation about rain room and some of my favorite instagrams.

For more photos be sure to check me out on Instagram @Smellthepaintfumes and #rainroom