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10 Out of 12
By Anne Washburn
Directed by Maureen Shea
November 21-24, 2019
Semel Theater
Photos by Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo
I didn't notice when I took this photo, but when I viewed it again this morning, the following poem from my favourite poet came out of my mind:
「橫看成嶺側成峰， 遠近高低各不同。 不識廬山真面目， 只緣身在此山中。」
- 蘇軾 (1037－1101)
We all see things differently. Even though we are at the same place at the same time, we can have totally different views on things around us. (please zoom in to see the sculpture.) Next time when you are mad at somebody or you want to argue with someone, think about this picture :)
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52件出自不同藝術家的雕塑品，分布在豐樂公園的不同角落。它們詮釋著人類對生命的熱情與對環境的尊重。
Here's an assignment for my Drawing 1 students based on the photo I took last April at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They have to locate the vanishing point and horizon line by tracing the orthogonal lines and figuring out where they meet.
ktempest: I Challenge You To Stop Reading White, Straight, Cis Male Authors For One YearThe “Reading Only X Writers For A Year” a challenge is one every person who loves to read (and who loves to write) should take. You could, like Lilit Marcus, read only books by women or, like Sunili Govinnage, read only books by people of color. Or you could choose a different axis to focus on: books by trans men and women, books by people from outside the US or in translation, books by people with disabilities. After a year of that, the next challenge would be to seek out books about or with characters that represent a marginalized identity or experience by any author. In addition to the identities listed above, I suggest: non-Christian religions or faiths, working class or poor, and asexual (as a start). This article by my friend K. T. Bradford for XOJane seems to have attracted a silly amount of controversy, and unfortunately, hatemail. I have certainly done versions of this Challenge myself in previous years, more than once. Which is how/why I have so much to say and post for Fiction Weeks here at Medievalpoc. All this is about is making thoughtful choices about what you read. It’s about diversifying your own empathetic capabilities. Instead, a rather ridiculous bunch of people seemed to take this as “Gaiman hate”, which is of course, absurd. Especially considering Gaiman’s response: Pretending that grabbing books at random is somehow “more fair” than actually making thoughtful choices about the books you read not only ignores systemic inequality in the publishing world, it’s silly. We all choose books to read for reasons. A challenge to read, say, only women authors, only disabled authors, only authors of color, for a limited time is a fantastic way to discover new and fascinating worlds and perspectives.