My internet is still out of action.
I have been trying to resuscitate the modem by repeatedly unplugging and rebooting. At one stage, flashing blue lights came on which made me hover with my fingers crossed. Yet, still no internet connection and hopes were dashed.
I’ve never realised how much I depend upon the internet until I am deprived of it. Apart from a cellular connection through my iPhone, I have no way of updating my blog or checking FB status. Still, it’s far better than nothing. Plus, I am pleased to discover that a WordPress app for iPhone is not at all bad. Besides, the present inconvenience is a perfect dress rehearsal for me blogging from Japan during a 3 weeks stay after Christmas. Once our broadband is reinstated, I would love to check how the posts I have uploaded through the iPhone app look like, especially picture and font size.
Last Tuesday, I was happened to be around Hanover Square. After my hair salon appointment, I was heading towards Liberty and noticed an airy gallery with colourful exhibit…
Being intrigued, I decided to investigate what it was all about.
The show, titled “Candy”, exhibited paintings by Damien Hirst and installations by Felix Gonzalez-Torres…
The Visual Candy paintings by Damien Hirst…
While ostensibly abstract, the paintings were depiction of medicinal pills. The series was created as Hirst’s witty riposte to an art critic who dismissed his Spot Paintings as ‘just visual candy’.
The brush strokes were energetic and the colours employed were vibrant. A dynamic style of the paintings was refreshingly different from his earlier works. which were elaborate and somehow clinical.
The installations by Felix Gonzalez-Torres were made of real candies…
The viewer was invited to eat the candies but no one wasn’t doing so…
If a ‘Help yourself’ sign was put up next to each work, the audience might have interacted with the work more.
The exhibition will be on until this Saturday. Go and have a candy or two if you are in the area!
Hirst illustrating that even when painting something simple there’s still an inherent magic..I would be the one hoovering up the sweets..literally..would look very nice hanging from my tree! Another art installation perhaps? Could be a good excuse! xxx
No matter how old he becomes, he still has this cheeky YBA vibe, doesn’t he? It was refreshing to see his works with more raw edge too! xxx
I’d definitely had a go on the sweets! No need to tell me twice, either!
It was funny that nobody was touching the sweets even though they were there in abundance. I hesitated to pick one because the attendent was looking at me (=_=;) x
Looks amazing!
I don’t know how many bags of sweet had to be emptied to make the installations! And what they gonna do with it after the show is over… (^-^;) x
I hope you get your connection back…I would be a MESS!
Yes, I was reconnected to the world properly last night. The inconvenience put my life on hold, literally! No shopping, no news, no gossip, etc. I was truly lost…x