Lughnasa New Moon (Harvest Moon)
Sin and Salvation tour last night went well. Around 40 people poked and prodded, offered their ideas and shared insights as we went on my quirky tour of William Holman Hunt’s paintings and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It was the third Thursday at the museum, too. On this night their are led lights to give lobby walls and halls a different color texture, white furniture in conversation pods, a cash bar and music, this night an all woman band playing indie rock. The museum felt young, hip, happening. I liked the energy, the feel of it.
The scene that would have attracted me in my twenties and thirties. See and be seen, so important to singles gave an opportunity for dress up, which some took to the mid-Victorian extreme in honor, I imagine, of the Sin and Salvation exhibit. A man in top hat and green vest escorted a hoop-skirted young woman. A woman in a feather hat and post-WW II purple dress added a retro flair, too.
