Bring Out Your Dead - Egyptian Art and Death
January 13, 2001
Participants: Jessica Finelt, Brooke Cardin, Julian Sanchez, Heather McConnell, Damian Cunniff, Julie Leff, Leslie Van Gelder
Death is never an easy subject to discuss so we thought that a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art would provide us with a good backdrop for the subject. We spent the first part of our day exploring the lives and deaths of the ancient Egyptians and discussed what it means to have a culture obsessed with death (either planning for it, or avoiding it). Later, we found our way up to the Zen meditation garden and there quietly worked on our own coloring books about death. Some people planned very elaborate funereal rituals for themselves and others reflected on people they have loved and lost.
After all of that discussion of death we had to feed ourselves a little life - so we ended our evening in the eastern edge of Greenwich Village sharing a meal of Indian food in a place lit only by red Christmas lights. The food was too good for it to be hell, but the lights sure left us wondering!
Our Situques
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Some beautiful words on death from Gabriel Garcia Marquez
