This last thursday has been by far my favorite day at during my internship at the Asian Art museum. The day started off with a simply scavenger hunt, to help us get to know the museum. Throughout the scavenger hunt we took group pictures that should hopefully show up in other peoples blogs. Then we moved on to an art meditation, which basically is a style of viewing art that consists of viewing a piece for several minutes before making so written or verbal response to it. While art meditations usually result in free form responses, last week we were asked to write a haiku about the pieces we chose. I myself choose a simple depiction of Buddah with a gash on the side of its head, presumably wear and tear from time. my haiku about the sculpture was:
shh he dies here now
the beast time has come
no mercy is here
The rest of the day was dedicated to a private session with one of the museums storytellers and that was what truly made the day so amazing. Ive always had a love for the story telling at the Asian Art museum, especially those about Hindu inspired art. So getting to spend so much time with a story teller listening to a selection of Hindu stories about redemption, love, loss, and self fulfilling prophecies was incredibly special to me and getting to sit down with Amit, our story teller, and ask him questions about his life and story telling made it all the better!
-Sophia
(also sorry my picture may be upside down but its really one of my favorite from the scavenger hunt)
