Morning among mountains and misty rain (listened to the Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack on the way up for an epic bus ride), followed by delicious gluten free goodness at Toshōan 都松庵 in Kyoto.
Upon further reflection, the scene captured is also an accurate reflection of professors at this stage in the semester 🤣🫠
Hosting a movie viewing tonight for my students (to spot connections to the semester’s course content with the movie) while I grade in the back of the room… 😅
The Multiplicity #exhibition#fristartmuseum is a great show. Highly recommend it! We were lucky enough to get a tour from the curator (talking to my class here), exhibition designer, and director of education.
Thinking today of the stories museums tell- whether through (mediated) absence or presence. Photo cred to one of my museum studies students who is not on this platform. #smithsonian #beninbronzes
😂 That sounds like the perfect intersection of two of my interests. Asian influences on Jedi and really, more broadly, on the visual choices made for the Star Wars movies are fascinating!
Right?? I admit I’m guilty of thinking about wearable iconography as a bit cringe and capitalistic (not that this is absent, of course), but I’m nuancing my thinking more and more as I consider various premodern practices.
Went to see the Shandao painting, but was also particularly drawn to this pilgrim’s jacket. I’ve been thinking more and more on the incorporation of Buddhist iconography on wearable objects from the medieval period onwards. Cool things with word and body in both these works! #AsianStudies #Buddhism
I’m waiting impatiently for it to come into our library!