The E. M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles
It's hard to figure
what gets into a museum.
This is Indonesian skirt cloth
made in 1970.
I think it's pretty spectacular,
but
can't it's equals
still be found for sale
in markets there - if not here ?
Why can't the museum
have a gallery of contemporary
clothing fabrics -- the best available
in continual rotation ?
The rest of this exhibit
comes from earlier decades,
some going back to early 19th C.
I vaguely remember
a similar pattern on
an Indian print bed spread
I had back in college.
Perhaps you don't have to be stoned
to intensely enjoy these patterns,
but I know it helps.
Is any abstract painting
this enjoyable ?
posted by chris miller at 5:50 PM
3 Comments:
Love the chicken.
My motto: Chickens loom large.
Yes -- that chicken does loom large -- and that fabric really dominated its gallery.
But on the other hand -- Sir G. preferred #5 -- and I can see how it might give more pleasure to quiet contemplation.
Sometimes -- I just can't make up my mind!
Hey Chris--
Been flying through some things that I've missed and enjoying your mind; usually you can make it up, I think! Nice to see that it's not always...
Five does seem pleasantly twining and more "open" and spacious. Somehow that seems to fit Sir Gawain.
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