Yesterday was one of my (mostly) off Fridays at KMC. Lorna and I headed into Boston to visit the museum of fine arts and see what they had that was new.

Visiting a museum is always a good way to reset from the stress of life (and while I enjoy my work it can certainly wear at times). This trip was a mix as we started with the ‘Matisse in the Studio’ exhibit and roamed through some of the permanent collection first.

The ‘make way for ducklings’ exhibit was wonderful. The early sketches were very interesting to see and we had not been aware of some of the wonderful children’s books McCloskey created.

They had a series of images from Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man with some amazing textures on the final images. They also showcased Time of Wonder a wonderfully poetic children’s book.

Finding our final stop for the morning took us through a variety of other areas including some modern pieces

I didn’t bring my SLR along so the shots are a little less crisp than usual.

Our final stop was a display of photographs taken in the Lodz Ghetto by Henryk Ross. It was a sobering end to an otherwise uplifting day. The terrible things that humans are capable of doing to other humans, prominently on display.

On reflection, the most soul destroying aspect is that this has continued happening since the 1940s in so many places before and since…Rwanda, Armenia, Kosovo, Cambodia, China and more…

We focus on the huge scale of the Nazi genocides and that is important but this sort of things keeps happening on larger and smaller scales for many different reasons.