Thursday, April 17, 2025

Minerva & Aries

 Reading the novel How to Be Both, (2014) by Ali Smith – – this is a detail from a painting she talks about:

“Allegory of March – Triumph of Minerva and Sign of Aries”, Frescos in Palazzo Schifanoia (detail) by Francesco del Cossa



 Roman Minerva is the Greek Athena. We’re in Aries now, for a few more days. Aries is ruled by the god Mars (that is, Aries).

I know del Cossa from his St. Lucy,  holding her eyes on a stalk like flowers

Stories create room for …. “the same ability we had when we were eight years old to go ‘wait a minute…’”

—wonderful 15-min. interview with the so- smart and likable Ali Smith, on the importance for creative work of doing nothing/ being lazy; growing up with art and images as a Scottish Catholic (I didn’t know that was a thing!); and the value of metaphor for showing the physical is the spiritual, and vice versa —and both at once; etc.:




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