MUSEO 2008
“All the world’s a stage” as Shakespeare puts it, in the often-quoted soliloquy in As You Like It. He compares the world to a stage and life to a play, and man to be the actors progressing from infancy to death in several stages.
I started on this series of abstract images in 2001 not knowing that I would title it MUSEO but after a while, and having visited several museums on numerous occasions, I felt drawn to the MUSEO title. The word in Latin invokes a gesture of monumentality, grandeur, permanence and stone, of great civilisations and even greater architectural designs. Museums house inanimate objects and antiquities.
I see museum displays as a stage of the past. Where defunct civilisations have come and gone, they have had their greatness in time. It rarely gives meaning to the future.
An irony exists in museums of today. On the one hand these symbols and artefacts of ancient peoples were once revered as noble and great art, now lie behind glass cabinets, and roped off, preserved for future generations, yet sharing the same platform as shards of pottery used by the same people as dining utensils and everyday objects.
MUSEO by Steven V-L Lee is available at www.blurb.com/b/250604-museo
I started on this series of abstract images in 2001 not knowing that I would title it MUSEO but after a while, and having visited several museums on numerous occasions, I felt drawn to the MUSEO title. The word in Latin invokes a gesture of monumentality, grandeur, permanence and stone, of great civilisations and even greater architectural designs. Museums house inanimate objects and antiquities.
I see museum displays as a stage of the past. Where defunct civilisations have come and gone, they have had their greatness in time. It rarely gives meaning to the future.
An irony exists in museums of today. On the one hand these symbols and artefacts of ancient peoples were once revered as noble and great art, now lie behind glass cabinets, and roped off, preserved for future generations, yet sharing the same platform as shards of pottery used by the same people as dining utensils and everyday objects.
MUSEO by Steven V-L Lee is available at www.blurb.com/b/250604-museo
