Photo Friday: Butter Carving

butter carvings - 1 apr 2011

Last Friday, Chloe and I joined Camille on her Latin class’s field trip to the Monsters, Demons, and Winged-Beasts: Composite Creatures in the Ancient World exhibit at the Michael C. Carlos Museum on the Emory University campus. We had issues with parking and ended up having to walk a long distance, uphill, fast. As my knee was hurting already, this was bad. I ended up missing the tour of the exhibit and instead sat down outside the room where the Tibetan monks were working on a sand mandala and yak butter carvings.

I am disappointed in myself for not having taken better photos of these amazing creations. I lacked the courage to ask if I could take photos, so I tried to do it inconspicuously. In the future, I’m going to work up the nerve to ASK. I also wish I had learned more; the lack of immersion on my part, I will chalk up to the pain I was trying to manage.

Two side notes: The knee pain turned into full-blown sciatica, painful and horrid. I’m slowly improving. Three days after we were at the Carlos, a fierce, tornado-like storm blew through Emory’s campus and a tree fell on the top floor of the Carlos where the monks had been working. I don’t know what happened to their creations…

For more photos from a previous trip to the Carlos, see Photo Friday: The Carlos Museum.

This is an entry for Delicious Baby’s Photo Friday.

mandala - 1 apr 2011

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