at a conference. It was actually a very good conference as I didn't start to drop off to sleep until about 5 minutes from the close ... result.
The best of it all was the location The British Library. What a joy!
The only downside was I had merely 30 minutes (during the lunch break) to explore its wonders.
The library contains some 150 million items which includes 25 million books and a glass tower in the centre which houses 65,000 printed volumes along with other pamphlets, manuscripts and maps collected by King George III between 1763 and 1820. A truely magical place.
I had that same warm custard in your belly feeling as I did when I saw my gt-gt Grandfathers signature from 1835 in a birth register in Morlaix, seeing these great works for the first time..
wow this is interesting as I have been surfing around for images etc ... Canterbury Tales on the net .. do take a look
Anyway piece 4 is now complete and I think piece 5 will be done today and 6 done by tomorrow
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It does give a very odd feeling when you see 'stuff' that was written and handled by the originals.
I like what you're doing BTW - it's like making some order of the clutter discovered when clearing out the drawers of Great Aunt Maud. There's a story there but it has to be pieced together to make some sense of all the fragments. If only there were blogs available at the time - t'would make things a whole lot easier.
Mind you, I suspect that my great great grand children might be a tad confused over at my place - tee hee.
Daddy P ... It was truly a wonderful experience .. I had all those wow feelings of 'Shakespeare. Mozart, de Vinci et al actually wrote that at that time & I can see it now, here!'
I think you have summed up my pieces with the clutter bit .. I want the pieces to have different meanings to different people for them to see what they want to see from them .. I think this is because when I look at art I love to be challenged by the different bits is shows me .. this is a prime example
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/picture-of-month/showLarge.asp?venue=2&id=37
Shea .. the British Museum along with other museums fire my imagination I just love them.. I am not haunted by ghost but intrigued by what has gone before us ... what happened before 'us' and how us humans learned and discovered things without technology but just by looking, researching and learning. Truly it is phenomenal how we learn.
Thank you & I will endeavor to get a picture of me with the exhibition .. & as they say 'watch this space;! :-)
I really like what you're doing, and I'm sure it's going to be well received. The very best of luck!!
Somn .. thank you so much .. it looks fabulous set up in the gallery & those who saw it really liked the pieces (I still find it all amazing )
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