all of which puts me in mind of the rather splendid exhibition
death: the human experience
on at City Museum until March 2016
first things you see when you enter the museum are the
death’s-head hawk-moth illuminated banners pointing you
onwards, with an original Banksy (?) intervention to
statuary – creating an interesting juxstaposition – to the right
and on into the mysterious space the museum has created. . . .
to some strange symbols in glass bell jars: carrion crow,
to assist the recently dead to cross over to the next world:
these crows are particularly associated with death
as they eat the flesh of dead animals
and these glorious payback figures
and on to an encounter with a medieval doctor’s head gear
an exhibition that warrants returning to and savouring further
all in all a moving week in so many different ways. . . .and like Life, a continuing
still at work on the current book project small matters of life & death,
of which more soon to come
rather appropriately, off this weekend to a day’s workshop with Stephen Jenkinson:
activist, storyteller, teacher – he of the film Griefwalker
please do visit again
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