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Raven and the Box of Daylight
Feb. 20th, 2020 12:03 amMy friend and I went out to Wichita on Sunday for a last minute trip to see Breaking Benjamin and Korn out there since the show wasn't coming closer to us. It's about a three hour trip to get there, which isn't too bad and I had Monday off which made it a pretty easy decision to just do a down and back trip without staying overnight. We got into Wichita early on Sunday and (as two art majors are wont to do) we looked up the art museum in town and spent the last hour it was open on Sunday wandering through. It's a pretty small place, though we definitely could've spent way more time looking through it. We managed to see the whole thing, but the focus for us was this really interesting looking exhibit they are currently hosting called Raven and the Box of Daylight.
The story is a native Tlingit story about the Raven. The entire exhibit was of glass and sculptures created by artist Preston Singletary. You walk through the sculptures reading the story of Raven as he sneaks into the house of the nobleman as a speck of dirt, how he is born a new in a human shape and releases the light into the sky. It's BEAUTIFUL. I found a video from another exhibit so you can see what it's like to walk through the whole exhibit. The video is a little loud, it's definitely not this loud when you're walking through the exhibit in Wichita.
I was just in awe of this whole exhibit. So much of the glass sculptures don't look like glass or sand. They're beautifully and intricately carved and tell the whole story in such an interesting way. I know there's a few books about this exhibit and had the museum shop been open Sunday night, I probably would've tried to buy the book just for the history of this work and how he put it all together.
If this ever comes near you, I'd highly recommend checking it out.
The museum in Wichita is small, as I said, but what it has is definitely a really interesting collection of curated pieces. Because it is where it is in Kansas, there are some native communities nearby and there was a side gallery with a host of art created by indigenous people in the past 50-75 years.
We found some dinner after our walk around the museum, then had a gander at the sheer number of people standing in the cold waiting to inside the arena for the show and then found a place to park near enough for us to walk in good lighting over to the arena ourselves. This is maybe the sixth or seventh time we've seen Breaking Benjamin (neither of us can remember exactly how many it's been). It wasn't the best show of theirs we've ever seen. Their lead singer, Ben, was sick and his voice was definitely not up for the job of singing and screaming metal songs. But the band did great picking up vocals which was great to see and his work with the crowd is always amazing.
Neither of us are huge fans of Korn and considering we had a three and a half or so trip home in the middle of the night, we just stayed for a few songs before heading out. What's nice about these trips is that we get a lot of time to just hang out and chat in the car, which is nice. These kind of concert outings are new for us in the last few years, but I'm loving the chance to get out for a day/night and not just stay the same places we've always gone. It means trying new food, seeing new stuff (like the museum neither of us had been to before) and seeing shows that might never come to our city. It's not always as fiscally conservative given the number of concerts she and I can get up to in a single year, but they're always worth the time.
The story is a native Tlingit story about the Raven. The entire exhibit was of glass and sculptures created by artist Preston Singletary. You walk through the sculptures reading the story of Raven as he sneaks into the house of the nobleman as a speck of dirt, how he is born a new in a human shape and releases the light into the sky. It's BEAUTIFUL. I found a video from another exhibit so you can see what it's like to walk through the whole exhibit. The video is a little loud, it's definitely not this loud when you're walking through the exhibit in Wichita.
I was just in awe of this whole exhibit. So much of the glass sculptures don't look like glass or sand. They're beautifully and intricately carved and tell the whole story in such an interesting way. I know there's a few books about this exhibit and had the museum shop been open Sunday night, I probably would've tried to buy the book just for the history of this work and how he put it all together.
If this ever comes near you, I'd highly recommend checking it out.
The museum in Wichita is small, as I said, but what it has is definitely a really interesting collection of curated pieces. Because it is where it is in Kansas, there are some native communities nearby and there was a side gallery with a host of art created by indigenous people in the past 50-75 years.
We found some dinner after our walk around the museum, then had a gander at the sheer number of people standing in the cold waiting to inside the arena for the show and then found a place to park near enough for us to walk in good lighting over to the arena ourselves. This is maybe the sixth or seventh time we've seen Breaking Benjamin (neither of us can remember exactly how many it's been). It wasn't the best show of theirs we've ever seen. Their lead singer, Ben, was sick and his voice was definitely not up for the job of singing and screaming metal songs. But the band did great picking up vocals which was great to see and his work with the crowd is always amazing.
Neither of us are huge fans of Korn and considering we had a three and a half or so trip home in the middle of the night, we just stayed for a few songs before heading out. What's nice about these trips is that we get a lot of time to just hang out and chat in the car, which is nice. These kind of concert outings are new for us in the last few years, but I'm loving the chance to get out for a day/night and not just stay the same places we've always gone. It means trying new food, seeing new stuff (like the museum neither of us had been to before) and seeing shows that might never come to our city. It's not always as fiscally conservative given the number of concerts she and I can get up to in a single year, but they're always worth the time.
