Sunday, September 14, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
pilgrim
in chartres, we met a tough australian who had just walked a huge chunk of the pilgrim's way from the french border to santiago
it was the first time i'd seen all the stamps which the pilgrims collect at each hostel on the route
now she'd come to chartres to study the labyrinth ... and she explained the difference between a medieval church's labyrinth and a maze ... the medieval church labyrinths have a spiritual or symbolic purpose possibly connected to the pilgrimage to jerusalem and they don't have dead ends
unfortunately the origins of their meaning were forgotten by the clergy and many were destroyed
here's an uncredited image downloaded from wikipedia's article on the cathedral at chartres
Friday, September 12, 2008
more stuff from chartres
NB
IF YOU GO TO CHARTRES ...
... STAY FOR AT LEAST TWO NIGHTS
... AND TAKE SOME GOOD BINOCULARS TO STUDY THE STAINED GLASS NARRATIVES
the best internet guide to the stained glass might well be adrian fletcher's ...
borrowed image
at the jeu de paume in paris, there is a big exhibition of wonderful photographs by the late richard avedon
i had a lot of delightful surprises and one big surprise
somehow or other, for nearly forty years, this triptych had passed me by ... i had never seen it
in the second room at the jeu de paume, the three prints, each about ten feet square, are displayed higher up the wall than in this picture from the milan show
so coming face to face with some of the "cast" of lou reed's "walk on the wild side" was quite a shock
for some reason that i'm not yet able to rationalize, i was immediately reminded of some of botticelli's great canvases, primavera, venus and mars, ... but of course warhol's factory had nothing to do with idealism ... maybe someone else can figure out the connection for me
any suggestions ?
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