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stevejosephson

angels

Jun 18, 2009 22:38

Père Lachaise Cemetery. Love to see this place by candlelight.

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greenlandgem June 20 2009, 04:37:23 UTC

That is insanely beautiful. I've been to Paris three times but I've never been to one of the cemeteries or the catacombs.... I will have to on my next visit. I find sculptures absolutely mesmerising - that something so lifelike can be carved out of stone just astounds me. I am so wildly unartistic that most of the arts amaze me but for some reason, sculptures just leave me speechless.

Definitely on my to-do list next time I'm in Europe.

greenlandgem June 20 2009, 04:38:15 UTC

It has just occured to me that this may be because I'm a geo. Dang, why does my geoness seem to infiltrate every aspect of my life? Grr.

OUTBACK CARTOONS!!! waynefromlorain June 21 2009, 23:54:23 UTC

I think that you are very artistic Meghan. I enjoyed your outback Christmas cartoons. I laughed about the one where the drunk in the Santa suit is trying to call the Dingo and you were standing by with the blurb "IDIOT" over your figure. This is very imaginative.

stevejosephson June 22 2009, 01:53:00 UTC

You guys see with better eyes. Everywhere I look I see human history - old roads, ancient trash, and the like. Farther back than that, all I see are dirt and rocks. Had I ten lives, I'd spend one doing geology. Course I'd spend another as a 16th century Japanese gardener, but still.

stevejosephson June 22 2009, 01:45:05 UTC

I feel much the same about sculpture but I'm only really floored by Rodin. But since they seem to mind when I touch at the Rodin Museum, I try to save it for cemeteries.

Also, I really do like the fact that cemetery art lives outdoors. Somehow this seems right, with the moss and the trees. Sculpture indoors seems oddly dead to me. Probably the same reason I prefer ruins to museums.

the_ma June 28 2009, 18:49:31 UTC

I so wanted to pretend I was a blind person and ask for permission to fondle the Rodins-even with white gloves it would be such a yummy experience. I'm into sensory experiences, someone once suggested it is because I'm forever a six year old....

stevejosephson June 29 2009, 00:05:11 UTC

I yielded to temptation in the Hirschhorn Sculpture Garden in DC. They had a copy of this in a nook with few direct lines of sight:

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Get a grip zetai July 3 2009, 03:18:59 UTC

Reminds me of something a college acquaintance and fellow Rodin fan said:I find it tragically ironic that my world is such that I must go to forms of metal and plaster in order to see what true moments of humanity are like.--Allison Asher

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