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s apparently the most stable solid element dali also took pains to recreate all the elements in the landscaped background of the painting water air fire earth this reminds me of my moments in the woods or camping or hiking where i feel closer to god and more accepting of the reality of christ than i do almost anywhere else except the lds temple my final piece is a contemporary painting by one of my favorite mormon artists ron richmond it will look familiar to any of you who visited the beholding salvation exhibit at byu s museum of art a few years ago what symbols of the sacrament does this utilize how is this depiction different from others i love the removal of all human figures the artist encourages meditation on just the symbols of the sacrament no more being distracted by john s personality or christ s hair or the size of the upper room the red cloth is vivid enough to bring christ s painful passions to life and the silver swath of cloth on which the bowls rest delivers the idea of the sacrament into our hands down through the bottom of canvas i end with this one because it is my favorite reminder that in a very real way the choice of how we view the sacrament what we make of christ how we remember him is all up to us posted by lmemory at 3 05 pm 2 comments monday january 13 2014 an artists battle survey russell and i discovered the scribble feature on gmail s iphone app yesterday in church tell me who s portrait of their significant other is better lindsey looks at art superfast downhill russell posted by lmemory at 4 40 pm 1 comment saturday january 11 2014 part at once from this glorious piece of writing about a condemned football stadium let s not unman each other part at once all farewells should be sudden when forever else they make an eternity of moments and clog the last sad sands of life with tears lord byron an advocate for irish good byes if ever i met one good byes are hard but they can be hopeful hope in others future that good karma is coming their way that you have left them full of understanding of your feelings for them and that this might buoy them up to the heights you foresee them reaching good byes are in fact a great opportunity to plumb a depth and breadth in a friendship or relationship that would otherwise always be skated over no thankfully i have no good byes to say to anyone at present i m just thinking of a few friends dealing with them and perhaps of my cities arlington and washington winds in the east something is brewing that kind of thing gerard bryne a country road a tree evening cruagh on the road between kilakee and tibradden dublin mountains 2006 fuji crystal archive print hirshhorn museum and sculpture garden posted by lmemory at 11 49 am no comments wednesday january 8 2014 las vegas aerial shot found this gem on i love charts this morning had to share look at lake mead shrink i love my city also i need to get the second half of my last supper lecture post done i know i want to finish this sunday i m publishing this goal to get some accountability hold me to it posted by lmemory at 9 55 am no comments saturday january 4 2014 one year 2013 was my first year with a photo happy iphone and i did a lot of documenting i haven t succumbed to instagram yet and therefore i will recap the last twelve months of my life old school style and i can t believe i m going to call it that on my beloved albeit slightly dusty blog months are backwards because you ll see you get a story at the end december i actually got into the christmas spirit this year unlike all the past years filled with finals went home for 6 glorious days which became 8 glorious days thanks to a glitch in delta s booking system november my brother marcus said it best when he said that brown thanksgivings are his new favorite holiday i am blessed to come from two of the most entertaining warm funny faithful close extended families known to man and it was a joy to bring russell home to meet everyone for the first time we sang we stuffed ourselves we made good use of the strip i even made a custom google map documenting our adventures october a pilgrimage to the rosslyn garage where deep throat mark felt dropped off his fbi papers for washington post s bob woodward if you are a history nut like russell and i go see it soon the garage is going to be torn down a hike in the shenandoahs during the government shutdown with roommate kathryn the fall white house garden tour and halloween with my boyfriend the l shaped tetris piece september imagine dragons concert freakishly rainy uva byu football game in beautiful charlottesville and this august my brother spencer leaves virginia forever but then i chase him across the country on two great trips to san francisco and utah gone almost the whole month come home to an immediate roadtrip with russell to louisville ky to cheer on my friend ben as he completes an ironman july fourth of july of course and a date to the woodrow wilson pool the most beautiful pool i have ever seen june got back together with russell after 76 days apart every great couple breaks up at least once or twice bridesmaid at my beautiful friend marissa pugmire findlay s wedding whisked away to nyc for an artsy golden birthday and then a russell day the next day which meant seeing famous nyc sports arenas may complete a relay half ironman with a bunch of friends go to my fifth duck beach trip graduated april second year of going to the richmond international speedway for nascar with friends finally checked mount vernon off my list road trip with friends to st augustine florida for my first ever olympic triathlon one of my favorite memories of the year loved that race that state but most importantly my friends march skiing at wisp with rachel and megan indoor triathlon in baltimore with kathleen and ben quick trip to utah to be a bridesmaid at my wonderful friend ashley crist girvan s wedding february for v day i got him spandex he got me flowers january warning moosh alert i am very happy and ready to talk about it around 1 am on january 1 2014 russell and i celebrated the one year mark since our first kiss i want to close by telling that story because it really basically set the stage for 2013 2014 reenactment before christmas 2012 russell had called me his friend and secret crush of two years to ask me out in celebration of my finals being over and my master s coursework finally being complete unfortunately i flew back to vegas that very night so i had to say no but raincheck please over christmas break i remember showing my best friend jessica the facebook pages of the three eligible young men i had in mind for the new year 2013 jessica was absolutely team russell who was bachelor 2 i remember her explaining he looks like your style it s like you already dress him ps i am crazy about the mix of good old baseball cap boy and buttoned down casual man he has fashioned for himself see the swanky collar above and the adorable fanboy outfit below after a sweet 2012 christmas spent with family i flew back on new year s eve donned my stripey new dress with a capital d and set out to attend a big party thrown at a friend s house nearby i saw russell there and i remember we had to shout at each other to have a conversation the place was so packed he actually asked me to step outside for a second explaining that crowds like that get him anxious since then he s told me he was worried i didn t feel comfortable around him because the conversation didn t last long i have since reminded him that he brought me out into 20 degree air wearing nothing but a simple sheath dress we talked we returned to the party the countdown to 2013 came and went i think we were in different social orbits in opposite sides of the room about ten minutes later he noticed me gathering my things to walk home and offered me a ride leaving behind his brother michael who was just visiting for the weekend and knew no one there we sat in his car outside my house talking for probably 15 20 minutes and a youtube video was mentioned so i invited him in to watch it at this point apparently he thought i was totally on the hook for hooking up it crossed my mind that we might kiss but i brushed off that thought before i d even unlocked the door because i thought russell was way too gunshy for that and besides we were just friends we talked on the couch for at least an hour i remember discussing really deep topics for just friends including ironically the idea that no one needs more than one year of dating to decide to get married look at us eating our words sometime after one am russell realized his brother was stranded and he rose to leave he hugged me and i hugged him for a while both of us still fight over who was lingering during that hug i swear he was the one holding on we then pulled back and bam three little kisses said good night to one another and i closed the door smiling although slightly worried that i had just shot a giant hole in a great friendship fortunately he called the next day to ask for a date and so here we are a year later marveling at the fun two people can have and how cool love is here s to a great 2014 ahead posted by lmemory at 3 45 pm 2 comments saturday december 14 2013 british library engravings can t get enough did you know the british library just released one million image scans of book illustrations from its 17th 18th and 19th century collections onto flickr i spent an hour scratching the surface of this treasure trove this morning here are a select few of my favorites and i do mean select guys i cannot stop downloading images this is incredible the visual inspiration for frozen s kristoff look at his hat bebe pull my heartstrings anyone else excited to go home for christmas winter always makes me want to go snowmobiling in yellowstone especially after seeing getting obsessed with frozen now go find your own ps i saw tons of illustrations from old french and german art history texts like this made me miss research i always checked out the oldest possible books on whatever i was researching because those books help you get a sense of the initial perception of an artwork then you move forward in time and research and start to sense how society changed its thinking about an object s significance and meaning over the centuries one of my favorite shifts was the old 19th century penchant of germans to scientifically document aka own every aesthetic type and every ethnographic type but that s a different story thus they produced a lot of tight fisted pseudo scientific occasionally racist illustrations of items around the same time the french realized in part thanks to victor hugo that they had a majority share in the worlds collection of gothic architecture and likewise began recording all aspects of the built environment like the example you see above around that same time the early american cultural leaders were informed by their puritain heritage and the idea of manifest destiny they thought good art should encapsulate history morality and the natural sciences great art would be painted with a magesterial gaze an example of an artist who they thought did this superbly frederic edwin church see his twilight in the wilderness from 1860 the cleveland museum of art i m getting a bit nostalgic three years ago i spent every waking moment of my december on a final research project on this artist can you see how he would have been lauded back in the day for incorporating something of the divine in his paintings as well as the scientific that atmosphere today a more modern avenue of study taken with church s works to identify which pigments frederic edwin church used according to william talbot formerly of the research library of the museum of fine arts boston church was experimenting with both organic and synthetic pigments on his canvases these pigments included in case you want to know lead white vermilion red lead strontium yellow chrome yellow cadmium yellow chrome green green earth earth colors umber artificial ultramarine and prussian blue art historian john howat argues that this mix of traditional and modern pigments illustrates the artist s penchant for following the latest achievements in chemistry and science but i still think there s a trace of symbolic even alchemical manipulation in the artist s choice of pigments vermilion hello happy saturday pps do you like my new blog layout first time i ve touched my template in four years obviously i couldn t stand to stray too far posted by lmemory at 10 55 am no comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom reading is an intimacy among strangers henry green about me lmemory life is pretty much the same as it ever was we get a couple dozen trips around the sun let s make of them what we can i love cars cookies class clowns and museums i m a life long member of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints it influences everything i do for the better view my complete profile currently 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