Heartbreak opens onto the sunrise
For even breaking is opening
And I am broken
I’m open
See the love shine in through my cracks
See the light shine out through me
My spirit takes journey
My spirit takes flight
And I am not running
I am choosing
I am broken
I am broken open
Breaking is freeing
Broken is freedom
I am not broken
I am free
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.
Snakes in the museum!
Anyone who saw what happened to Mr. Popper’s penguins in the Guggenheim might be nervous about bringing live animals to an art museum, but that didn’t stop Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. In a first for the MFA, if not any art museum, creatures including a horned owl, a broad-winged hawk, a corn snake, a painted turtle, along with ducks, rabbits, and woodchucks, all from the Drumlin Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, will be on hand to serve as live models during family art programs. The sessions will be offered February 20–24, part of the “Cogan Family Foundation Vacation Week Adventures” built around the show “Paper Zoo,” a selection of animal art from 1600 to the present made (inexplicably only) in Europe and North America. Artists include Rembrandt, Picasso, Calder, and of course Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, the patron saint of cat art, whose undated Prowling Cat is shown here.
The presence of live animals in the sacrosanct precincts of art, even the education department, raises a number of questions. Will the critters escape into the galleries? Will they bite the tiny hands that sketch them? And, naturally, Why a duck? Why not a chicken?
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Harriet Otis Cruft Fund/Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.
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