Issue 39: Sensuality of the Freeze | by Marina Gross-Hoy
"What does a flower feel when it blossoms? Soft? Beautiful? After being a seed, then a sprout, how does it feel to unfurl? Nothing like the process that it took to get there." — Your mother
Sensuality of the Freeze by Marina Gross-Hoy
What does a flower feel when it blossoms? Soft? Beautiful? After being a seed, then a sprout, how does it feel to unfurl? Nothing like the process that it took to get there.
— Your mother, on the phone last week
Crunch, the old man standing next to you bites into a tartine slathered in gobs of butter. Yellow flakes of crust snow down onto his neatly knotted wool scarf. Without looking down, he brushes them off with a practiced hand.
You are still waiting for your turn to order a coffee from the barman, who is laughing with two men in neon work jackets on the other end of the shiny zinc countertop. You make no effort to catch his eye. The longer this waiting stretches out, the farther away the moment when you will be forced to cross the river and sit at your desk, plotting like Perseus with his mirror-shield to avoid looking directly at your dissertation and being turned to stone….
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Marina Gross-Hoy is a scholar, writer, and speaker who lives in the Eastern Townships of Québec. She is completing a Museum Studies PhD dissertation at the Université du Québec à Montréal on the development of digital interpretation projects for visitors. She holds degrees in History of Art from the University of Michigan and muséologie from the École du Louvre in Paris. Marina writes about playing with new ways of paying attention to embodied experience. By subverting the gaze honed through looking at art in museums and turning it onto the ordinary and natural world, her essays explore how engaging with life through this 'museum gaze' can open us up to wonder, compassion, and empowerment.
Issue 39 Highlights
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Issue 39: Sensuality of the Freeze by Marina Gross-Hoy
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