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The Importance of Knowing that you can enter and once there—stay awhile
Image by Alessandro Idini. www.alessandroidini.com
Museums are not like a Starbucks which is designed for your comfort and encourages a repeat visit for the food and the social aspect one experiences there.  My family’s last visit to a museum resulted in our son, four at the time, almost placing his prints on a Van Gogh.  There was a restriction on the floor to indicate that one must not get too close, however, said four years old was in my arms and as we looked at the painting together his little fingers did what they naturally want to do, they reached in for the touch where he almost, missed it by a smidgen, added his fingerprints to that of history.  Would Van Gogh have minded?  We were surrounded by security within moments of the almost mishap.  I reassured them no touch had occurred but imagine that they knew that as they left us alon...

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Sandra Djak Kovacs
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Sandra Djak Kovacs is a Vancouver based writer who is also Executive Editor at Adore Noir magazine, www.adorenoir.com, a fine art photography e-magazine which celebrates works in black and white.  She writes regularly for Adore Noir, and is currently working on her first book.  You can find her on Twitter at @sandradeekovacs.  
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