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 > 803-329-2121 ext 122 * [log in to unmask] >