The Details We Don't Notice

As a girl, we have all done it, we have stepped into the metropolitan museum solely to see the fashion display. We skip over the vases and pottery that is supposedly a million years old and had "some" kind of importance during a specific time period. But who really cares anyways? It's just a bowl, why is it even here? Today in my art history class I learned that ancient Greek vases were used as funerary offerings. Each vase was inscribed with a story of a funeral procedure. Death was seen as an awful and terrible thing in Greek tradition, each vase is covered with women pulling out their hair, which is how they mourned for the deceased. So next time you think you're going to pass that silly vase in the glass box, think again, that shit is just as important and sacred as facebook is to the world.