I loathe places where the changes of season are imperceptible.
Imagine a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where the frequent changes of season come violently and without warning, and organized government has fallen to warring tribes and crazed foragers.
He shot the pictures in different years in the 1980s, but apart from changes of season the view is the same: the window with a cluttered table in front of it, and outside a tenement backyard with scrappy trees, facing walls and patches of sky above.
In teaching us to compromise, to savor a little of this, a little of that, suburban life also fosters alertness -- to the changes of season, obviously, to the moment when first the forsythia and then the azalea burst electrically into bloom, as if somebody had turned on the juice -- but also to the little civic rituals and moments of passage that tend to go unobserved in the city.
The show, organized by James Ulak, curator of Japanese art at the Freer and Sackler galleries, opens with a glowing cinematic sweep in the form of two 17th-century screens depicting scenes from "The Tale of Genji". Minute figures play out their roles with ritualistic grace; flowers and foliage mark changes of season; the entire drama is glimpsed, episode by episode, through scudding golden clouds.
A few changes of season later, Toro, like springtime, is in full bloom.
Instead stagehands and security people acknowledged me with snarky, absurd salutations that can only be traded among people who've shared changes of seasons and cycles of life.
A circadian signal of change of season in patients with seasonal affective disorder.
"The season is changing, but it's more than change of season," he said, when he returned.
