The Camera and The Gallery

 Sorry for the brief hiatus, I should really stop apologizing, we all know I am not very consistent at this blogging thing.

Anyway, where were we... well Caryn and Jackson took the day to do a day trip on a distillery and mini highland tour, round Glengoyne and Stirling Castle, it looked like they had a pretty excellent time together. Its a tour my dad and I had done before, at least four years ago. They did that while Dixon and I had the day to just chill out together. So the next day they had break while both of us were working. That catches us up to the Tuesday where we did the Camera Obscura and the World of Illusions and then we made our way over to the National Gallery where they were having a free Generation exhibit of 20 years of contemporary art throughout Scotland.

The camera obsura was very cool, as I hadn't ever seen that before even though I have been to the actual attration before, we came too late and didn't get to see that but got to go through all of the floors of illusions. It was a lot of fun all round.

And at the gallery as you might be able to suss out there was a particular exhibit that I really liked. It was all pretty cool though.

 

 

 

Louise Bourgeois, Again

I got to go to the second Louise Bourgeois exhibition this month on my lunch break this week, which was at The Fruitmarket Gallery. It was over 200 sketches and writings from when she had insomnia that were saved from the bin by her assistant, that she made in the winter of 1994, I believe. And having seen her finished works at Modern One of the National Galleries, it was really cool to see the themes and repetitions in her work at the starting levels. Some of my favorite images were of the flowers and when there was water as well. I was surprised to find the large works upstairs in the gallery as well, I hadn't ever been upstairs in the Fruitmarket. And they really had a lot of emotion in them, well worth having gone up to check them out. Each piece was connected through the words she wrote on them, and now thinking of it I wihs I took not of all of the pictures words. But in the large one below it says,

"When terror pounces

Grips me

I create an image"

 So all in all a brilliant way to spend my lunchtime, and it was really cool to find out more about an artist who up until a few weeks ago I hadn't heard of.

All The Galleries

So this may be a fairly picture heavy post, but to be honest, thats mostly what I read blogs for so here ya go, a wee treat. And so did we that day, there were a few exhibits around the city that we both wanted to see and it turned out to be a beautiful day to do it. 

I had never been to Modern One, and neither had Hayley, so it was really cool to see the layout of the garden and the sculptural landscaping. I couldn't get a good picture of the "Everything is going to be alright" but I will hopefully have a chance to try again. Soon.

It was an exhibition on Louise Bourgeois, including elements of sculpture, drawing and painting. Proper modern art, and even the parts I didn't fully get the parts that I liked really made it totally worthwhile. I would definitely recommend it, and I am hopefully checking out the companion exhibit at the Fruitmarket later in the week.

The National Galleries were having their RSA exhibit as well as a display of Rodin's The Kiss, which we made the special trip for, and it was amazing in real life. And very cool to get a picture with.

And one last Exhibition, at the National Museum of Scotland, the Kabuki exhibit I have mentioned earlier, I got a really good look at and it is still so cool how woodblocks work, I really want to teach myself how to do this amazing type of art.

Hayley's showing off the famous Cross Eyed pose, its meant to show when a character is angry or agitated. I think she pulled it off very well.

I don't know why this is turned the wrong way, but just now I can't be bothered to fix it, but Hayley made an awesome lunch and it deserves a mention, roasted Veg and Spinch Salad with Pesto Dessing, and Veggie Jelly with Fresh Carrot and Orange Juice. Delicious! 

And one last thing I am trying out, 100 Days Happy, so you record a moment each day that makes you happy and here is my first week. Its been a good week.

1. New Scarf and Mittens all cosy for winter
2. Bamming up Marshy on Facetime
3. Starting walking again, with a rainbow
4. Video games with Dixon
5. Galleries with Hayley
6. Surprise Pizza
7. Night in to myself with Sushi, Crabbies, and Countdown, 8 out of 10 Cats style

 So that has been fun so far and I'm looking forward to more of those.