The title is a quote from last nights lecture.

The lecture was grand. Sitting in a room full of really clever people, for me is  the same as sitting in a room full of artist. The energy pulls you into the void.  I am guessing academics spend so much time in their heads they follow the same stream that artist do and end up in relatively the same place.  For me that would be  an  impossible  situation, the task of  naming, categorizing and identify sources keeps me grounded.

Carol Mavor, was an entertaining speaker and fun to watch, as well as thought-provoking. She is a professor of Art History and Visual studies at the University of Manchester.  Her lecture was titled “Blue Mythologies  A study of the Hue of Blue.”

“Mythology is truth disguised as fiction and fiction disguised as truth”  Carol  Mavor

Is this not a great line. When I worked as a storyteller, kids would always ask “is that story true” my reply  ” You know what part is true ”  interesting Carol Mavor is turning her attention to fairy tales next. Makes sense to me.

I loved the visual, I loved the energy, I loved the ideas, it was a great place to be on a foggy slushy, wet, wet evening.  Thank god for David because I would not have ventured out, if he had not agreed to go with me and do the driving. This cat hates being cold and wet.

The idea that I could understand the duality of life by making friends with the colour blue. Pretty exciting, I may go into a blue period.

 To understand duality you must  stand at the vortex of the nothing and  there you will  understand everything. debi Keir-Nicholson

This is where I landed at the end of the experience. Something to chew on.

” All and all Maggie Muggings  it was quite  day. “

  Mr. McGarrity

The images are from http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/roger-hiorns-seizure/  This is one of the projects Carol used for her visual part of the lecture. It is sculpture by Roger Hiorns he turned an architectural space (an apartment) into a gem stone by covering the inside with blue copper sulphate crystals. I see it as a man-made cave or home-grown cave. It is so cool.

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