Comments on: For Neda

By: tuscanycat

tuscanycat — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:34:58 +0000

Thanks nico. Sometimes, words cannot express what the heart feels…

By: nico

nico — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:18:25 +0000

thanks for that–all of this makes for so many thoughts swirling about the old head that I haven’t even gotten close to putting down words. you said it, brother.

By: tuscanycat

tuscanycat — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:48:27 +0000

You’re right sfmike and that’s what makes the museum unique. But I’m more familiar with western art and as an artist growing up, that was what I turned to for inspiration. After working for the museum for so many years, I’ve grown to appreciate Asian art too but I like art in general, in all its forms.

By: sfmike

sfmike — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:23:42 +0000

Please don’t take offense, and I do love Michelangelo statues, but one of the things I most love about the Asian Art Museum is that there isn’t dead Jesus iconography everywhere, as there is in any Western art museum.

By: tuscanycat

tuscanycat — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:50:41 +0000

Well said mangolassi. Events like these, as emotional and destructive as they are, can sometimes draw inspiration as it allows you to look within and find comfort in things familiar to you.

By: bittermelon

bittermelon — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:10:44 +0000

Thoughtful and timely, thanks.

By: mangolassi

mangolassi — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:39:36 +0000

A beautiful post, thank you. It can be difficult in face of such loss, but may we take comfort in mankind’s higher nature when our lower impulses wreak such destruction.