The moving figure

Eadweard Muybridge made photographs of people and animals in motion late in the 19th century. To me nothing is more beautiful than the human figure in motion, and his attempts at trying to capture that motion from different angles has a completeness about it. Cubism attempts something like this in individual paintings. Associations with early movie making are apparent. All kinds of possibilities are opened up - possibilities that movie making has seldom approached. Experimental films attempt some of these things: triptychs, polytyptchs, stop motion, montage - but basically there's a proscenium that is never crossed when you watch the conventional movie.
Tomorrow I'm visiting my art teacher from Brevard who is now at High Point University, Cherl. I'm going to draw with her drawing class, a prospect I find exciting - she may have a model or else a still life. I'm already preparing to bring way more than I need.
I may have a preaching gig at Easter at the church in Smithfield, where an Easter tradition is to bring various meat products and try to reassemble the beast. They used to do this to insure a successful tobacco harvest - now they do it to celebrate fertility and the coming of Spring. Like any Presbyterian service there will be lots of covering body parts with meat and wearing of vegetables. There will also be the celebration of the keg and the tartin' of the krakens. The "wee timrous cowrain beastie" of Burns "to a mouse" will make an appearance and deliver treats to old and young alike. And the "oh little Brauts of Bethlehem" will descend from the rafters with ululations and scintilations.