[not that it is all that original of an idea - I mean, art re-interprets/builds on past art all the time]
bu then there were these crazy swedes, and these bottles of red wine, and the plan kind of disintegrated.
Anyway - did not happen. Then this morning, work up to find a giant influx of backpackers to this previously quite sleepy hostel. In the giant bed/room shuffle that happened, there was something like 30 people and their luggage hanging out in the common room (myself included).
With time to kill, I decided that before I attempted to reboot renaissance art, perhaps I should actually study it.
Et voila. a more care-warn (almost 'chipped' )interpretation of Michelangelo's Pieta.
I'm not sure what my re-boot idea is.
When people say 'you travel alone?' I think yes. I do. Part of it is the logistical issues of finding people to travel with, but part of it is - Like Virginia's Woolf ' a room of one's own' - a person needs more than physical space to create. Even more important - its creating the mental space of one's own. When you travel alone, all your usual influences (good and bad) slowly fade, your socially-constructed history fades. You have more 'space'.
Why create? Cause its SO MUCH FUN!
[i once spent three days by myself on a beach doing the absolute bare minumun. Just sitting there watching the waves. Because I wanted to see what I would think about after three days of absolutely nothing. It turns out that I didn't think of much. But it was only three days.]
uh. have no idea where I was going with this post.
Michelangelo's Pieta. Just staggering.
My version is like - what it would look like after it had been dropped down a flight of stairs. How's that for a re-boot??!?!
;)
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