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The Bunnell City Commission meets at the Government Services Building, located at 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, at 7 p.m. until 2025, when it will be allowed to move into its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway. Click here to view meeting agendas, materials, and minutes. The commission examines the rezoning of around 1,900 acres to industrial designations on a first reading basis. See: The Bunnell Board outrages residents by approving the rezoning of nearly 1,900 acres to industrial use without raising any questions.
The monthly meeting of the Flagler County Beekeepers Association takes place in the Flagler Agricultural Center, located at the county fairgrounds at 150 Sawgrass Road, Bunnell, from 6 to 8 p.m. Beekeepers from Flagler and the neighboring counties (as well as those with an interest in the trade) are invited to this conference. The gatherings include refreshments, a speaker, and Q&A. It’s a fantastic method to learn how to be a beekeeper or to get support as one. Everyone is welcome. Every month on the fourth Monday, meetings are held. Kris Daniels can be reached at 704-200-8075.
Through a 12-step program, Nar-Anon Family Groups provide hope and support to friends and family of addicts. They meet at the Fellowship Hall Entrance of St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, located at 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, at 6 p.m. Visit www.nar-anon.org or give them a call at (800) 477-6291. Visit this link to find virtual meetings.
Notably, Hendrick van Loon’s 1937 brilliant history of the topic, The Arts, describes how the Marquis de Sautuola and his four-year-old children went for a walk in the Cantabrian Mountains in 1879. He enjoyed exploring caverns in search of fossils. At Altamira, he entered one. Adventure was even more appealing to his daughter. She disappeared, moving stealthily through spaces that were only accessible to her slender frame. She was holding a candle. According to van Loon, she slipped into the cave’s bottom section and raised her candle. However, she was horrified to see that she was looking directly into a bull’s eyes when she glanced up!She shouted for her father because she was so terrified, and that’s how a young girl searching for something to do happened to find the earliest of our well-known prehistoric paintings. In order to allow the Marquis to pretend to be a great archaeologist, other caves were soon discovered, including the splendor of Lascaux in France’s Dordogne region. However, the Marquis was first criticized as a fake when professors who came to look at the pictures on the premises insisted that such magnificent paintings could never have been the work of prehistoric savages and openly accused the discoverer of hiring a Madrid artist to cover the walls of this cave with products of his brush. Because his internet connection wasn’t functioning as well as mine, Van Loon doesn’t tell us the girl’s name: According to one website, Maria Justina is eight years old, not four. The paintings were estimated to be 17,000 years old when the cave was first inspected. By using X-ray technology, it was possible to identify earlier paintings underneath, causing the oldest to be dated back 35,000 years. That moment when Maria looked up and saw the bull’s eye glaring at her is equally wonderful in my opinion. We don’t know the dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Marias who have wandered into that cave over the centuries, let alone the many who have lived there over the millennia, even though the deep recesses were only accessible to a select few. Therefore, it would be an exaggeration to claim that there has only ever been a single instance like this in history. They were recesses for that reason. We now know that the paintings were intended as a kind of religious projection, a Platonic phenomena that is far deeper and older than Plato’s cave, rather than as art and most definitely not for the general public as we know it today. Even so, Maria’s story still echoes in the mind with all of its wonders at that same moment. How many of us will ever experience such a moment? Perhaps we do it every day without even realizing it, just by gazing up at a cloud formation or the way evening light permeates a mundane sight in a way we have never seen before. The wonder shouldn’t be restricted to Maria’s experience in the cave just because those bulls were painted by human hands. However, it is amazing that the beauty of the human hand has endured for thousands of years and that we can still see and feel what it did as if it were yesterday. That and the feeling that we haven’t changed fundamentally throughout the thousands of years, gripping that hand as though it were kin, are unreplicable. And that moment has a certain quality. In his journal, Gide stated: “No, it’s a useless thing.” We can see the same spot twenty times and never see anything different. We see less; we look more. Perhaps we have a greater understanding, but the wonderful surprise has vanished.
P.T.
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A fine point is used to sketch each of these animals in profile, and a brush or stumping cloth has been used to fill in some of their silhouettes. I searched for a twenty-one-inch-long ibex that Clottes had told me was one of the most exquisite creatures in a cave and the creation of a perfectionist. He seemed so happy when I found him that I couldn’t stop giggling. Since time loses its contours underground, I was unsure of how long we had been there, but Alard was patient. After a while, he added, “I imagine you want to see more,” and we continued. Every time you come into contact with a cave animal, you are caught off guard. It must be awakened by your light and recognized by your eye, as you often miss creatures that are there while seeing ones that are not. I asked Alard if we may stop and switch off our torches halfway to the mortal world. Every sound is amplified by the acoustics, and it takes the brain a few minutes to comprehend the full extent of the blackness that your eyes are constantly trying to perceive. No matter what the work is, you realize right there that its vessel is a womb and a grave.
From First Impressions: What Can We Learn from the Oldest Art in the World?Judith Thurman, June 23, 2008, The New Yorker.
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