two more

I am going to be a little indulgent and post these photos from Sunday. They didn't seem to fit in with the birthday photos.

Cole went to a classmate's birthday party which was hosted by Batman and Robin. Cora and I weren't invited, so we hopped a bus to the Cultural Centre (it is double cultural if you spell it that way).

I am still not a big fan of socialism, but I will admit to reaping the benefits when it comes to civic architecture. Across the river from the central business district of Brisbane, the city planners placed a number of beautiful buildings within close proximity to a large bus station and it is all beautifully landscaped and linked together with South Bank (which, as previously blogged about, is one of my favorite places in this city).

There are too many buildings to list, but the three that top my list are:
-The Gallery of Modern Art
-The Queensland State Library
-The Queensland Art Gallery
The theme being that they are all free and I dig the space they each create.

It was just Cora and me. I do well one-on-one with the kids. With both of them together, I feel like a sheep dog nudging them both in the general direction that we are trying to go. With just one, I can keep tactile track of him/her with a gentle hold of the hand and let my mind and eyes wander.

I find that the attention span of a child in an art museum is equal to one minute for each year the child has been alive. After that, it is just an exercise in keeping them from touching the art. From a different perspective, the building size and detailing are of a monumental scale and they themselves become art. The quality of light in the main room of The Queensland Art Gallery is, in my opinion, an experience in itself. So, Cora running around the corridors is interacting with art on a different scale and I like giving her that experience.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely on the soul. -Ernest Dimnet