Showing posts with label british mueum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label british mueum. Show all posts

Friday, January 6, 2012

"Sitting With" the statues in the British Museum (qarrtsiluni Worship issue)



in August, qarrtsiluni had a call up for their "Worshop" issue - a theme that made me ponder, then skip it, just to return to it again, ponder on it some more, and come up with a submission of a photo i took a while ago, of 2 people and 3 statues. it is online now: "Sitting With".

above, the image that i took right before "Sitting With", it also hints at the place: it's not a temple, but the Asian section of the British Museum. a museum that, seen from another angle, is a temple itself: a temple of knowledge, discovery and memory. here's another photo i took there, that's the library section:



when i saw the 2 people in the "Sitting With" picture, i wondered what exactly they are doing there - praying, resting, reading? and looked over their shoulder. to find: they were sitting with the statues in front of them to draw them.

it's exciting to see this photo go online now, just some days after i came across the theme in of worship and paying attention / sitting with in a quote by David Foster Wallace (more here: T-Truth). and another moment from the British Museum, here:  London - around the world in a day.