A light day began with a late morning train to Leiden. There, from Centraal, Steef Eman (director of the Central College Abroad) walked us through the city to exhibit its windmills, churches, university and outpost. Eman shared local lore and the city's cherished facts.
GOD IS WONDERLICK, read the painted plaque in the Protestant church, stripped of its once-sacred statues. If they haven't been excavated, they lay in pieces below our feet, alongisde unfound Roman trash.
We broke off on the bridge for an hour and a half to satisfy ourselves. I found Australian ice cream and a view to sketch. At Naturalis, I indulged in stuffed animals, skeletons, whale songs and touch-screens. I'm on a train, now, returning, past flat, sweeping landscapes framed by black trapezoids.
I wondered today, while drawing, if Mondrian found inspiration staring at the geometry of windows.
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