Owl Creek Pass Road, San Juan Mountains, Colorado
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Two months back, I visited Mandu, the capital of the 13th century Malwa Sultanate in what is today the state of Madhya Pradesh in India. It seems like a lifetime ago, before COVID-19 had shutdown anything outside China. Now, I’m wondering when any of us will be able to travel again.
Mandu
Looking at these images, I’m reminded of how beautiful of a place Colorado is. In the midst of this Coronavirus lockdown, I’m longing to be able to experience nature again rather than being confined to my suburb. Going through pictures from old trips is simultaneously satisfying and exacerbating my longing to expirence the natural world. Hopefully, things will be normal enough this fall that I can travel to see fall colors.
San Juan Mountains, Colorado
Maroon Bells is an incredibly beautiful location. It’s one of handful a places that I’ve decided to visit because I saw a stunning of picture of the place. After seeing Maroon Bells, I toured around Western Colorado which has fantastic scenery.
Maroon Bells Sunrise
These ferries are traveling to and from the Gateway of India in Mumbai.
Mumbai Ferries
This stand sells flowers and sweets for offerings outside of the Shree Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai.
Vendor Outside A Temple
This portrait is remarkable because of who painted it. The artist is Prince Demah Barnes who was enslaved in Massachusetts. This and other works by the same artist are the only surviving fine art created by an enslaved person from colonial America.
Prince Demah’s remarkable story is movingly told in the Memory Place podcast episode: A Portrait (Met Residency Episode 4)
Listening to the podcast episode, I had a moment of confusion when I realized that Prince Demah was from Boston. The history we are taught often glosses over that slavery was legal in the Northern colonies as well. I looked up when slavery ended in Massachusetts: A 1783 decision by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ended slavery in the state.
Portrait of William Duguid
This tomb effigy communicates so much emotion to me even as a only a photograph. Every time I look at it, I feel both the artist’s grief and this underlying love for his wife. My recollection from the description in themuseum is that artist who was a painter by profession took up sculpting just to make this which makes it all the more incredible. It’s located in the Met’s Gallery 700, a light filled and airy space, which creates quite a contrast to this monument to one mans grief.