The fifth, sixth and seventh days were spent editing the English audio guide text.
I also spent a long time reading through the archival material I had selected as being relevant to my research interests.
On the sixth day I met Emma Viggiano who will be the new Director of the Museo in Xilitla (building work should be completed by the end of the year). She told me about her plans for the Museo and also about her research at West Dean in Sussex, England, where Edward James* lived. We also discussed the Edward Jame’s garden and the logistics of visiting Xilitla and Las Pozas.
In the early of afternoon 7th day Antonio and I went to meet Francesco Pedraglio at San Luis Potosí airport. We discussed the BA university student’s presentations and also Francesco’s new artwork for the Museo.
*Edward James was a British poet and a patron of the Surrealists. He was a major collect of Leonra Carrington’s work. In the 1960s he auctioned off his entire collection to pay for his sculpture garden in Las Pozas, Mexico.
