The kite show at the Visual Arts Center, called "Art on a String," is wonderful. Please perceive those kites before they take flight away. The show has been there all summer and closes Sept. 11. Don’t want it.
More than 200 kites are hung all over the galleries. They come from all over Asia. Each surroundings displays its own nature in daily and in silk and all the kites have stories to go with them.
Amazingly, all the kites, from pint-sized postage emblem hugeness to a 20-foot bird, fly. Not only have most been flown, but the curator of the show had to evince to many of the kite masters that she could rush these kites before they would peddle them to her. You will finance dragons and colossus goldfish from the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan.
There are fighter kites from Japan, Korea and India, mellifluous kites from Vietnam, and moon kites from Malaysia. There is a kite that was Euphemistic pre-owned to arrest fish and a kite that was in use to make one's hair stand on end crows away from the fish. There are kites that are anfractuous plant of art, painted by a masterly who was named a "national treasure" in Japan. Some of the kites are one of a kind. Others are usual and have been replicated year after year for generations - the same shape, the same format and the same bamboo skeleton.
Many of the images are samurai faces. Others are kabuki characters or instance a fable or a society tale. Frowning, curmudgeonly faces follow away unfortunate spirits and so, it is believed, will bear their owners happiness.
Cranes are a cryptogram of an auspicious event and so are flown to honour the parturition of a baby. There are tigers and turtles, caterpillars, butterflies and a panda. Please don’t fail to keep this exhibit. The kites are a window into cultures with thousands of years of tradition.
They are flown for jocularity as well as for symbolic reasons and old events. The VAC on 4th Street at Harrison Avenue is uncork Tuesday and Thursday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Bring this dispatch with you and you and your guests will each draw a $1 dismiss on your affirmation ticket.
JOAN WALLIS BURNETT Panama City Editor’s note: The scribbler is an astuteness historian and practicing artist who volunteers as a docent at the VAC.
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