Ashes and snow

The ASHES AND SNOW exposition is in the Mexico City, in the “Museo Nomada” (nomad museum) and I kinda don’t like myself for not being able to go see it yet, but work and weekend dealies make it almost impossible … I have several different version of the experience, related by people who’ve gone there in different hours, in different days.

On one side I got told of how wonderful it is, not only seeing the images of elephants, cheetahs and manatees interacting with people, the museum’s atmosphere, the emotive videos and how awesome the experience is, if you get there very early and avoid the long lines.

On the other side, I’ve been told how horrible it is to queue for three hours under a scorching sun and get into the museum together with a bunch of baboons (not the ones in the images) that go around making comments with a high cultural content such as... “So much waiting for this? To see elephants we would have been better going to Chapultepec Zoo!”. Besides certain human scents and the hastiness with which they make you visit the gallery.

Anyhow, I managed to get the book that’s sold inside the exhibition thanks to Yarita, which is the original with several fragments in castellan, besides a DVD that has some of the videos from the exposition. The content of the books is really amazing; I have to mention that the workmanship of the book in itself is simply magnificent. All the paper is handmade; the covers are made in Nepal (sealed with bee wax) and the interiors in Italy, packed and tied together with hibiscus tea leaves (I read that in the book description… xD).

Precious.

Seeing, reading and feeling the book is a magnificent experience, but I definitely don’t plan on missing the exposition, so once I manage to evade a little work and go for it, I’ll relate the experience. Meanwhile look up some images and avoid watching the video on youtube, which is worse that watching a pirated movie…it’s not worth it.