Quentin's Weeknotes 01/09/21-01/15/21
I had a long winter break that included visits from and to family, some rest, some stress, and very little work. Now I’m back, and there’s plenty to do.
This Week:
- I jumped back into work at the Museum with some inventory work.
- I continued the process of scheduling and organizing speakers for our series on acknowledgement.
- I finished Southern Cross vol. 1, which is space horror in the Event Horizon-vein. It was just sort of okay.
- Through the album “Twenty Four Seven” by Coope, Boyes, and Simpson, I found this short anonymous poem, entitled “There was a man of double deed” which I keep thinking about incessantly:
There was a man of double deed,
Who sowed his garden full of seed;
When the seed began to grow,
‘Twas like a garden full of snow;
When the snow began to melt,
‘Twas like a ship without a belt;
When the ship began to sail,
‘Twas like a bird without a tail;
When the bird began to fly,
‘Twas like an eagle in the sky;
When the sky began to roar,
‘Twas like a lion at my door;
When my door began to crack,
‘Twas like a stick across my back;
When my back began to smart,
‘Twas like a penknife in my heart;
And when my heart began to bleed,
‘Twas death, and death, and death indeed.
- We set up the panels for the permanent exhibit “Black Lives at Hartwick Then and Now” in the Stevens-German library.
- I did some work tracking down information on some prints in our collection by a Haudenosaunee artist named Bill Powless.
- Almost two years from when I put it up, I finally started de-installing “dadibaajimo: Two Mississauga Artists Share Stories” featuring the artwork of Cathie Jamieson and Luke Swinson. It was a wonderful exhibit, and I’m really proud that the Yager Museum could host such a beautiful and rich exhibit of contemporary exhibit of Indigenous art.
