We went down to London on Monday to visit the British Museum's Ice Age Art: The Arrival of the Modern Mind exhibition. It was a lovely sunny day and the pigeons were enjoying basking in the warmth on Richard Rogers' roof over the courtyard.
The exhibition is a collection of tiny artefacts - some of which are 40,000 years old - which offer a glimpse into the depths of human history. I found the exhibition really moving - it was amazing to stretch so far back in time and find a people so fundamentally familiar. This image, for example, is of the oldest known portrait of a woman. We know little about these people - how they lived or what they believed - and yet the objects they made suggest minds that work in exactly the same way as our own. Most interesting for me is the fact that, although these people must have had brutally hard lives battling against cold, harsh conditions in order to find food and shelter, the expression of the spiritual and artistic seems to have been of primary importance to them. 
Yes it was a great trip with so many highlights - I particularly enjoyed the vegetable pies in the British Library restaurant! I'm looking forward to our next London trip. Love - Mark
ReplyDeleteLooks as tho' it was an amazing exhibition.Strange to think modern teaching (last 1000 yrs or so ) hasn't taught us much in the artistic/spiritual way people express themselves ,it would appear that our brains worked in the same way but we now hove learned to use it to a greater extent awesome really !!Glad someone enjoyed the pies !!! xxxx
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