Day 25
August 20, 2013
Things change. Life goes on and on for the rest of us. This sign hangs outside the Mark Taper Forum. A Parallelogram by Bruce Norris closed there on Sunday.
Norris examines life from a fatalistic POV and asks questions that are not necessarily comfortable, but in his play are at once deep and thoughtfully funny. This theme of fatalism and ch - ch - ch - changes has a little Beckett and made me wonder about how much good all of us well intentioned folks actually do. Are our efforts rewarded, or is this all just a big game, as Alan Watts discusses in his "The Book (on the taboo of knowing who you really are)?"
I get deep into this stuff now and then and love it when art gives food for thought.
My friend, Jill Bell,
was visiting in L.A. last week. She comes to see her family. When I'm lucky we may see some art or share a meal and just chat.
So, we met at MoCA and saw Urs Fischer's destruction of the museum and some of my favorites from the permanent collection.
After our visit, I strolled back to the Music Center and, as clouds have attempted to be a theme for these entries for me, I caught some forming just over the hills to the north. After spending some time with the Rothkos at MoCA, I like the clouds and contrasts in this photo.
Coaxing Jill back to California from her too long stay in Colorful Kansas is a goal.
As summer's lease takes a hike, I can almost hear Sinatra singing "It Was A Very Good Year." Saw him briefly with a Spanish accent starring with Cary Grant with no attempt at an accent except his own in The Pride and the Passion the other day. One reference leads to another and life goes on.
michaelsheehan
