Daily Archives: September 7, 2012

Garden, Latin, Translating Metamorphoses

TGIF

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Lugnasa                                                           Garlic Planting Moon

A Latin day, this time with work on both Ovid and Virgil.  Aeneid’s first 7 verses, its first sentence with the famous opening phrase, I sing of arms and the man.   Greg sees a lot of progress in my work.  It’s as if some dam broke a couple of months ago when I began using phrases to translate rather than whole sentences.  The benefit of hanging in there.   (philemon_baucis_bramantino)

The most important thing I can do is to read more and more.  That ups my vocabulary, increases my facility with grammar and adds to my foundation in written Latin literature.

When I hit Friday afternoon on a week, I feel like the work week is over.  Tours on Thursday and Latin all Friday morning, then a quiet time.

Tomorrow the garlic goes in the ground, the potatoes come out and I check the bees to see how the feeding is going.  It will be a pleasure to work outside, as a change from all this head work, and in weather beginning to cool.  The nights are better now, much better.

I’m also looking forward to getting back to Missing and the revision.  This last three days: pre-op physical on Wednesday, tours on Thursday and Latin today has not left me with time for it.

Art and Culture

Art in Life

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Lugnasa                                                                    Garlic Planting Moon

As I continue to think about the MIA and my writing process, one aspect looms very large to me.  How would I continue to have art in my life in as significant a way, though without the time and subject strictures of the docent year?

Several ideas have occurred to me.  Which ones might work?  Too soon to know.  And, there is the important question of whether they will match the docent experience in both quality of learning and quantity of time with art.

Here the ones I’ve come up with so far:

1.  Walker/MIA  art blog

2.  Put up my own exhibitions using images from the internet.  The gallery setting on wordpress would work well, though my tumblr account would, too.

3.  Develop a reading program in art history.  I’m especially interested right now in contemporary artists theoretical approach to their work.

4. Make a commitment to look at art in new venues:  other museums in the Twin Cities, museums in other cities, books, internet resources, especially the Google Art Project.

Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900  (National Gallery, D.C.)
February 17–May 19, 2013

The first major survey of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites to be shown in the United States features some 130 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative art objects.

I’m sure other ideas will emerge.  If you have any, let me know.