The router went down in the hotel last night and it took me hours to get them to reset it. In the mean time my neice took us to the Turkish kitchen which was amazing. I’m afraid I’m mad about Turkish food – reminds me of my ex-mother-in-law’s cooking – it has a nobility and delicacy that i adore.
We seem to enjoy ‘being taken’ and learning, even though it means we miss a lot of what we should be doing. Yesterday we found ourselves at the Jewish Museum for an exhibit on Man Ray which was amazing as far as Man Ray was concerned but not so much as far as Jewishness was concerned. Why? Although it may be hard to document, estrangement and defamiliarization is as much a part of the Jewish experience as anything else. In Ray’s case, it allowed him to deconstruct everything he saw, even the fundamentals of art itself. At the same time it created the need to be accepted, and the hunger that comes from the impermanence of acceptance. I would have liked to see more about that at the exhibit, but perhaps it was so obvious they didn’t have to spell it out.
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