Art Museum

Jeremy and I went to visit an art museum last weekend and to see the exhibit "Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur". They were treasures indeed. Intricate and costly jewelry, make up cases, boxes, bowls, statuary, instruments, all about 4,000 years old. Seeing these nearly perfect and stunning pieces of everyday life from so long ago really drove home to me how little people change and what a myth it is that the farther you go back in the past the more primitive the people are. I mean they had tiny, precise gold tweezers and eyeshadow cases! The tomb itself was a pretty gruesome find. Ur is now part of Southern Iraq and this excavation took place as a joint venture between Baghdad, London, and Philadelphia in the 1920's. Down in the tomb they found a number of dead women, children, men and animals who were all killed to accompany the Queen into death. They were killed down in the tomb after everything was arranged. I'm sure there are celebrities today that would be delighted if they could legally make such arrangements for their own deaths. The St. Louis art museum is massive and contains art from some of my favorites Zurbain, El Greco, Eitel. . . I didn't spot a J.L. David anywhere which saddened me. Jeremy and I didn't have time to visit the arms and armory, furniture, Asian, or American art. We breezed through the contemporary due to time restraints. We'll be going back, though. My souvenirs? Photos. A postcard. Oh - and I had a cup of coffee. . .

On the way back we stopped in a small town and visited a living nativity complete with a camel, multiple goats, sheep, a llama (of all out of place things), donkey and live actors. It was a nice little church. Driving around the town we spotted some great locales for future photo shoots for my artwork.