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REMEMBERING AND REFLECTING ON THE DEAD – "Urns," blown glass, hold glass blown bones and skulls in the "William Morris: Early Rituals" exhibit at the Museum of Northwest Art through Sept. 29.
Dream images of William Morris's "Standing Stones" monuments at MoNA woke me at 3 a.m. after viewing the exhibit the day before.
The quietude in the back gallery at MoNA suggested timelessness. These monuments carried me back further than even life and death on Earth as Morris' glass art invites, but to the life and death of stars. Created from blown glass, they appeared to be rock and space, explosions and eerie silence all at once. Not disquieting. It invited thought and introspection.
Monuments to time – not in the sense of time passing for us mere humans but –the space-time continuum as Ei...
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