Empty Audience

Empty Audience
Originally uploaded by TheWanderingEye

I went to the Brooklyn Museum this weekend to re-visit an exhibit I loved years ago as a girl when my mother used to take my brother and me there. It was the subject of piece I read for the a writing group we've formed at work and it was suggested that I go back and see if it was still there.

It is part of exhibit of reconstructed 18th Century Period New England and Southern houses. Though changed a bit, they were all still there, and walking through the narrow aisles through those staged pockets of historical silence, displays of furniture and middle class interior design, I felt like nothing that mattered had really changed in a Museum that is very dear to me.

I hung out for a few minutes in the large arch of this grand atrium (pictured above) and just breathed in the stillness that I love about Museums in general. I've always been kind of romantic about old ancient things, architecture, artifacts, ephemera. So here I was sort of feeling my ancient and modern self merge. It was good.