Samhain Fallowturn Moon
OK. Three tours under my belt. I’m not finding interest like I expected. It may be my presentation which is long on history and perhaps not as attentive to the terra cotta figures. It may be the groups. Today was a group of kids from Lacrosse who had ridden three and a half hours in the bus and were sleepy and an online art history class who’d never seen each other before. Yesterday’s group, the friends, was more lively. Could be both. Maybe my selection of objects?
I’m actually spending about half an hour in the first two galleries, trying to focus on the development of the Qin state from its beginnings in the horsebreeding days of the early Sping and Autumn Period, to its gradual consolidation in the Warring States Period. Maybe that’s too much? Just not interesting? This seems like a really important story to me, a story about the formation of Chinese political culture against the backdrop of hundreds of years of violence.
The information is, to me, fascinating and the objects, Bo Bell, Dagger, Ceramic Cavalry figure and the Hu vessel all engaging. The energy overall seems low. Wonder if anybody has a similar or very different experiences?
I want to do this well and I don’t feel like I’m hitting the right notes.