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pantryslut) wrote2007-11-19 09:26 am
pantryslut) wrote2007-11-19 09:26 am
Weekend Update, Part 3: Museums
Sunday afternoon I did actually leave the house, to go with my household to the Dia de los Muertos exhibit at the Oakland Museum, as has now become a yearly tradition.
I think perhaps the exhibit was smaller this year, but nonetheless very moving. There were altars for community members like Chauncey Bailey and Antonio Salazar. There were hand-tinted photos of Oaxacan altars. There was a central community installation of RIP t-shirts on crosses, made by children from a local school. There was a very striking piece about the day the birds fell out of the sky in Mexico City, victims of air pollution.
For me, the intersection of high art and folk art expressions is what makes this annual exhibit so moving. All together in one room, all expressing grief and connection.
It was the perfect crown for what turned out to be a quiet, introspective sort of weekend.
I think perhaps the exhibit was smaller this year, but nonetheless very moving. There were altars for community members like Chauncey Bailey and Antonio Salazar. There were hand-tinted photos of Oaxacan altars. There was a central community installation of RIP t-shirts on crosses, made by children from a local school. There was a very striking piece about the day the birds fell out of the sky in Mexico City, victims of air pollution.
For me, the intersection of high art and folk art expressions is what makes this annual exhibit so moving. All together in one room, all expressing grief and connection.
It was the perfect crown for what turned out to be a quiet, introspective sort of weekend.