What's Your Favorite Museum Work Poem or Quote? (Plus a HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!)
Do you have a poem or quote that you keep coming back to that inspires or resonates with your museum work?
I do. It's a poem called "The Real Work" by Wendell Berry.
The Real Work
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
It seems that so much of our museum work often brings us to places and ideas that we don't quite understand yet. And I guess that's part of the reason that "The Real Work" resonates with me, and why I keep Berry's poem on my phone so I can share it with my creative partners.
And now the HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!
In the spirit of quotes and poems, I'm going to give away three of Harry White's "Exhibit Aphorism" card decks to some lucky ExhibiTricks readers!
For your chance at one of those three decks, just email me your favorite quote or poem that drives and inspires your museum work before December 11, 2023. And tell me a little about what the words mean to you and your work. I'll choose three winners from all the responses submitted.
Depending on the number of responses, I'll put together a future ExhibiTricks post sharing some of the inspirational poems and quotes.
GOOD LUCK!
Paul Orselli writes the posts on ExhibiTricks. Paul likes to combine interesting people, ideas, and materials to make exhibits (and entire museums!) with his company POW! (Paul Orselli Workshop, Inc.) Let's work on a project together!
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