2021 CATALOGUE
THE VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY PRESENTATIONS
The hour long presentations are globally contextualized, geared for an intergenerational audience and fostered in beauty.
Erotica : works for the imagination
Here now; then there; before me & behind; within, without all around; visions of You appear. My longings mount; my limbs whirl; my mind burns within me & loses itself in You.
- Jayadeva, Indian poet, c. 12th CE
More in the realm of John Donne than Hugh Hefner, we invite you to swoon in the beguiling mystiques of the Arts, Literature and Nature draped in the gossamer veils of seduction.
Beautiful deeds : the visual poetry of contracts
Consider the visual impact of bronze tablets, shining polished in the Roman sun, on display on the Capitoline hill, Rome’s ritual center and site of the huge temple of Jupiter. Complementing the gilt bronze roof-tiles of the temple, the letters on the tablets may have been painted, or even gilded, to emphasize the resplendence and majesty of law.
Though the connection between law and writing is assumed, our modern society’s focus on efficiency often comes at the price of beauty. To illustrate the point, compare the dry, legal marriage certificates of today with some of the archived ketubahs, the magnificently decorated Jewish wedding contracts that reflected the rich artistic heritage of the surrounding culture. Please join us as we investigate the aesthetics of jurisprudence : that legal documents — along with being authoritative, memorable and eternal — have also been beautiful.