museum tuesdays
Museum Tuesdays are my way to get myself out of the house, as I can be a frightful hermit if I am not careful. All the museums of Balboa Park have free admission one Tuesday a month on a rotating schedule.
I like to go to the galleries and really drink in an exhibit, or maybe even just a piece or two. I bring a journal and sit down in front of a piece that really strikes me, and I write about it.
Last month, the San Diego Natural History Museum hosted an exhibit called The Art of Robert Bateman. He is a wildlife artist, and his paintings look eerily like photographs. They are incredibly beautiful:
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One of my favorites from the exhibit was called “Haida Spirit”. And this is what I wrote about it:
This is the one. It is almost Buddhist. It is an invitation and a dare and salvation. The canoe, made by ancestors in the same way since your people were born, crafted with that accumulated knowledge, it is for you to cross to what you truly are. The water breaks up and distorts the truth, showing it back to you in the way you need to see it. A guide awaits, and knows like the beat of its wings that you will be triumphant. How is the universe anything but made for you to live in it?
The Buddhist reference was me remembering the idea of Buddhism as a “vehicle,” as explained here.
