Thursday, April 20, 2006
Day 27--3/15/06
3 Hours:
East Asian Art Collection
East Asian Art Collection
- Met with Katherine Mino
- spoke about the projects that are being completed in the department
- paid particular interest to the scrolls collection
- a collection of scrolls that have been digitized and are now used as research tools for students. the scrolls have "hot points" in which informational bubbles reveal themselves
- discussed the future caves project
- their are several headless Buddhas in caves--this project will superimpose the heads to the bodies and create a virtual representation for study
