Goin' to see the KING!
Jun. 15th, 2005 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
storytimewithjoeWooHOO! I got tickets! I'm gonna see the King!
No, not Elvis.
I just purchased tickets for the husbear and I to see the Tutankhamen exhibit.
http://www.kingtut.org/tickets.htm
I can remember the American obsession with King Tut back in the early 70's. Social-introvert WEIRDO kid that I was, I was completely obsessed with Tut and all-things-Egyptian. Perhaps it was the early pagan in me trying to get out. Perhaps it was the inner-artiste in me obsessing about the brilliant creativity of the Egyptians. Maybe it was the morbid curiousity of "the curse." Or maybe it was the fact that this figure of history, so ancient and almost forgotten by history, had been thrust so brilliantly back into the limelight through the sheer brilliance of the stuff. As a young child, I just could not wrap my brain around the idea of something being so ancient. My only exposure at that point to things of that age were stories from the bible. To me, smalltown kid that I was, anything THAT ancient was as foreign and distant as Mars. It was inconceivable to see or touch or witness anything so vastly and far removed. Yet, when the catalog appeared, I was hooked. There were these objects - thousands of years old. But as unique as they appeared, they were not all THAT foreign. The faces seemed so realistic. The human figures looked like, well, human figures. The Goddess Selket, in her many guises of strength and magic, eminated the seductively beautiful quality of "Woman" in strength and might.
I still have the original exhibit catalog that I got a hold of when I was seven years old. And now, as luck would have it, I will finally get to see the exhibit - 30 years later.
This is a childhood dream come true. Right now, it just feels surreal.
No, not Elvis.
I just purchased tickets for the husbear and I to see the Tutankhamen exhibit.
http://www.kingtut.org/tickets.htm
I can remember the American obsession with King Tut back in the early 70's. Social-introvert WEIRDO kid that I was, I was completely obsessed with Tut and all-things-Egyptian. Perhaps it was the early pagan in me trying to get out. Perhaps it was the inner-artiste in me obsessing about the brilliant creativity of the Egyptians. Maybe it was the morbid curiousity of "the curse." Or maybe it was the fact that this figure of history, so ancient and almost forgotten by history, had been thrust so brilliantly back into the limelight through the sheer brilliance of the stuff. As a young child, I just could not wrap my brain around the idea of something being so ancient. My only exposure at that point to things of that age were stories from the bible. To me, smalltown kid that I was, anything THAT ancient was as foreign and distant as Mars. It was inconceivable to see or touch or witness anything so vastly and far removed. Yet, when the catalog appeared, I was hooked. There were these objects - thousands of years old. But as unique as they appeared, they were not all THAT foreign. The faces seemed so realistic. The human figures looked like, well, human figures. The Goddess Selket, in her many guises of strength and magic, eminated the seductively beautiful quality of "Woman" in strength and might.
I still have the original exhibit catalog that I got a hold of when I was seven years old. And now, as luck would have it, I will finally get to see the exhibit - 30 years later.
This is a childhood dream come true. Right now, it just feels surreal.
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Date: 2005-06-16 12:32 am (UTC)I've loved Egyptian art since I was a kid. Eldred and I drove to Alabama so I could see a traveling exhibit at the art museum there. I saw the Ramses exhibit when it was in Charlotte years ago.
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