by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)
Showing posts with label online lectures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online lectures. Show all posts
greg and i listened to a lecture organized by my sister's library about national historic lighthouses (she and my brother-in-law were listening in also). we were especially interested in the montauk lighthouse and the ponce inlet lighthouse in port orange, florida; one town away from new smyrna where greg grew up, and where the speaker was from also.
he talked about erosion and how so many lighthouses are losing land, except for the sandy hook lighthouse in new jersey, which is moving further from the water due to longshore drift
i listened to a lecture today about faces on the facades of new york city buildings. robert arthur king talked about his photographs that he has compiled into two books: faces in stone, and figures in stone. he spoke on the national arts club website.
i think it would be fun one day, to find the places he's listed in his book.
there's really no documentation on what the stone cutters were representing. he thinks many of the figures were the owners of the buildings.
after photographing new york, he was invited by friends to cities in europe, where the one above was taken (in madrid).
i was up at 7:55 am this morning to watch the 9/11 table of silence dance project presented at lincoln center, a ritual for peace conceived and directed by jacqulyn buglisi with local and international dancers. since it's still covid time, it was live streamed without an audience.
afterwards, i began preparing the black eyed peas and collard greens meal that i planned for today . .
and i listened to a lecture from the new york botanic garden's humanities institute as i chopped. it was an inspiring talk by carolyn finney who recently completed a book titled, black faces, white spaces: christian cooper, john muir and (re)claiming a green world. it's been recorded and archived and should soon be on their website here. it's an inspiring lecture (dr. finney is wonderfully enthusiastic about her subject) and i highly recommend listening to it. in the meantime, you can listen to the conversation she had with the great, great grandson of john muir!
the robert hanna show/podcast with dr. carolyn finney. i haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, myself, but i hope to tomorrow.
greg at work . .
pluto at work . .
and this is my mess when sorting through a bin of stash yarn, looking for skeins for a new knitting project with designer denise bayron titled, moving forward wrap . .
i decided on two skeins (which will be held together) of hu made's fingering twist in colorway homer at sea; two skeins of oysters and purls indigo dyed bluefaced leicester/merino and two skeins of oysters and purls indigo dyed alpaca/corriedale.
the completed meal of long grain brown rice with black eyed peas and collard greens (with chunks of ham).
