{"id":1562,"date":"2015-11-03T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2015-11-03T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:43:36","slug":"death-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seeingthings.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"death & life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\u221a\u221aWalk\"<\/a><\/p>\n

all of which puts me in mind of the rather splendid exhibition
\ndeath: the human experience<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/em>on at City Museum until March 2016<\/p>\n

first things you see when you enter the museum are the
\ndeath’s-head hawk-moth <\/em>illuminated banners pointing you
\nonwards, with an original Banksy (?) intervention to
\nstatuary – creating an interesting juxstaposition – to the right<\/h5>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \"1.Death\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"1a.DeathHead's<\/a><\/p>\n

and on into the mysterious space the museum has created. . . .
\nto some strange symbols in glass bell jars: carrion crow,
\nto assist the recently dead to cross over to the next world:
\nthese crows are particularly associated with death
\nas they eat the flesh of dead animals<\/h5>\n
\u00a0 \"Crow
\nand these glorious payback figures
\n\"PaybagFigs<\/a><\/h5>\n
\"PaybackFiguresPNG\"
\nand on to an encounter with a medieval doctor’s head gear
\n
\n\"PlagueDocBeak\"<\/a><\/h5>\n

\"PlagueDoc-text\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 an exhibition that warrants returning to and savouring further<\/h4>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 all in all a moving week in so many different ways. . . .and like Life, a continuing<\/p>\n

\"work<\/a><\/p>\n

still at work on the current book project small matters of life & death,
\n<\/em>of which more soon to come
\n\"\u221aSmllMatters\"<\/a><\/p>\n

rather appropriately, off this weekend to a day’s workshop with Stephen Jenkinson<\/a>:
\nactivist, storyteller, teacher – he of the film Griefwalker
\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"and<\/a><\/p>\n

please do visit again<\/span><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

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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…<\/p>\n

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