passionless

for quite a while we weren't sure if we wanted to see it or not, but we finally decided to go see The Passion this afternoon. but it was sold out. apparently a church group or something bought it all up. duh.

so we ended up at the Hunter museum, just in time for the last hour of Jeff Morton's exhibit. the nice lady at the counter pointed out they have a 2-for-1 coupon, so we both got in for $5. we enjoyed our quick trip through american art.

I was expecting more stuff from Jeff, but we really liked what we saw. granted, we would have had little idea what he was trying to get at if it wasn't for the paragraph pinned to the wall. but still, it's very cool stuff. somehow it's made even cooler by the fact that we hung out a bit this morning when he came to get his (super smart and cute) kid from sunday school.

my favorite stuff in the museum was the photography, and my favorite photograph was "running white deer" by Paul Caponigro. maybe I prefer photographs b/c I like to do a bit of photography myself, or at least I did for a while. maybe it's b/c it tends to be more straitforward? I often feel like I don't "get" art, but that doesnt bother me much anymore.