I haven't got much to say, but it is raining outside and it reminded me of the temple, the rain is falling very gently though. The travellers are back. The unloading of Italian food has been undertaken and also a large old wooden pestle, the mortar was too heavy and expensive to bring back. What else, another Mary and Jesus to add to the collection. My daughter collects but she is not religious. But occasionally, just occasionally she finds paintings or prints of both to hang on the wall.
Collections are funny things, and I am not a collector of anything, maybe books but a lot of those have gone to Oxfam. Once one of Paul's clients had several boxes of religious icons delivered to the studio. They had been in his cousin's basement for thirty years. What was the point? were they collected to go up in value. Needless to say they were dark and unattractive. We all unwrapped them, they were checked and then went back into the boxes again.
What a beautiful temple! Reminds me of my visit to China and all of the lovely ancient buildings we saw.
ReplyDeleteIn the video, I wanted the pretty music to stop for awhile so I could just hear the rain on the roof.
Italian food sounds more fun then religious icons!
ReplyDeleteI don't get the point of icons, myself, but because they are 'religious', people get nervous about discarding them. Perhaps they were passed down, and the client was too superstitious to discard them.
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