The Buddha Don't Need No Quizzes

     Today I took a slide quiz + fill in the blanks + sequential ordering on the first gallery of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum.  We had to sit two chairs apart. I think I passed; it was a pass-fail situation.

     As a reward I get to hear Ravi Shankar, my first time live, probably his last at the SF Jazz.

     All-on-all a great day: a lecture by the pre-eminent scholar Dr. Dehejia on the Sacred and Sensuous in Indian art.  An eye-opener for judeo-christian-protestant-puritan types like self.  The divine can be and was imagined as utterly human, and religious ectasy close to sexual ecstasy in its appreciation of human beauty.  And this means the body adorned and decorated, which can be seen in the India of today.

    If this existed amongst the Greeks and Romans, it surely was buried by the time I came round.

Photograph 2008, Lucey Bowen