Musée Picasso Paris is an art gallery, located in the Marais district of Paris, dedicated to the work of Pablo Picasso. The museum collection includes more than 5,000 works of art and archived pieces from the artist’s journals, correspondence and photography.
Most of the items of the worthwhile collection were donated by Picasso’s family after his death, in accord with the wishes of the artist, who lived in France from 1905 to 1973.
Over the coming days, I will learn more about a city I have always imagined visiting.
To begin, however, I will count on all I have read about the authors, artists, and uncertain histories (or mysteries) of a city called Paris. I will walk some of the same streets as many legendary creators have before.
A journey awaits.
j.g.l.
For the most part, you can choose your view. Wherever you are (or end up) the view becomes personal, for a time. Own it. Your personal view also depends on attitude. What you see affects how you feel, no matter how temporary. Where you are is how you are. Own it.
To be a tourist is to take in life, as it happens and where it happens, as you see it.
There is a sense of wonder that comes with knowing so little about where you are but learning as you go. The anonymousness of it all is astounding. You are a stranger in a strange land, an outsider seeing another side of life on the other side of this magnificent planet.
Observations become the recollections of what you have never seen before.
j.g.l.
For days and weeks, I will be away; another time zone far away from where I call home.
Still, each day I will wake. I will do things that I usually do, but maybe in a different way. The sights will be varied, yet my camera is the same. What will I see in my viewfinder? What will my memory take in?
What I will see is entirely up to me.
j.g.l.