it's art day!! whatever that means!

So I had to go to the art museum here (I say I *had* to but I would've gone even if I didn't have to) and was totally captivated by the new exhibit of John Herberle works (well - no actually just really liked two of his pieces called "Japanese Corner" and "Night" [obviously it goes without saying that viewing the images physically is so much better than viewing them on a computer]; the other pieces of his were OK but they didn't grab my attention like those two did).

Also while there I looked around the shop and brought 1001 Symbols: An Illustrated Guide to Imagery and Its Meaning by Jack Tresidder which is OMG~!! so fascinating and explains a lot of things. Although there are a lot of protective symbols in art and chastity/fertility/marriage/love symbols, way more than I'd thought there would be.

Some excerpts:

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I could go on and on but I need to post this already and start getting ready for class.