Quentin's Weeknotes 3/28/21-4/3/21
This week:
- I talked about metal and textile care at the Museum, and we washed the Eurydice sculpture by Slovenian sculpter Bojan Konaver that greets visitors to Yager Hall.
- I finished reading Laurence Hauptman’s “Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State”. It taught me a lot about how New York came to be a cohesive entity, a process that largely happened due to an alignment of political, economic, and cultural forces in Albany that worked to strip Oneida and Seneca peoples of their land in favor of transportation infrastructure and development.
- I read volume 1 of Rob Kirkman’s “Outcasts”, a frightful and creepy comic about demonic possesion, and the reverberations of violence.
- I also read volume 1 of Kieron Gillen’s “Once and Future” an odd and exciting comic series about a group of British fascist zationalists who resurrect Zombie King Arthur to eradicate modern Britain, and the monster hunters who fight back. Weird and wonderful.
- I had submitted a work of flash fiction to Crystal Lake Publishing’s flash contest for March (on clowns and carnivals), entitled “Torn Page Found at an Abandoned Circus.” I didn’t win, but it was fun to write, and I have posted it here.
