An admirable display of passion. The reason we put up with lousy salaries
and crazy workmates.

On Fri, 31 May 1996, Anne Lane wrote:

> JEN writes:
> >How about souls?
> >Does someone else have this feeling about things?
>
> Yes, at the risk of scandalizing my fundamentalist southern friends
> I will say that many museum objects have souls, and they whisper
> or cry out to you or try to frighten you; just looking at some objects
> can be a life-changing experience.  Isn't this, too, part of the reason
> we are in this? And why we are so desperately trying to find ways
> of attuning our audiences to the souls of these things and therefore
> to the souls and stories of those who made them, be they intentional
> works of art or incidentally works of art, such as a set of African
> blacksmith's tools I recently rehoused. Rough, crude, utilitarian,
> yet beautiful with an unassuming grace of form that makes you damn
> the gloves.
>
> Anne
> Anne Lane
> Curatorial Assistant
> Museum of York County
> 4621 Mt. Gallant Road
> Rock Hill, SC  29732-9905
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