Oxford: Bodleian Library & Christ Church

self portrait in motion

Today's photography focus was on moving. That is a pretty appropriate theme since everything seemed to move me during today's tour of Oxford. In fact, we kept moving, pressing on from one great thing, object, scene, etc. to another. At the Bodleian Library, I saw the complexities of keeping history alive and well. Deep into our private tour library archives and catacombs,above one of the desks was a handmade collage, in almost a shrine, to the late Michael Jackson. Not twenty feet above this underground area, a shrine to the library's primary founder stands guard, forever in marble. The mixed metaphors of moving or even just me being moved or the delicate dance between the very, very old and the complexities of the modern world seem to be yet another running theme of these blogs.