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| Chapel Market * |
We’re learning. Out first to get a few things for the meal later, though never quite as few as we planned. Thought cucumbers, tomatoes and raspberries, but then we add oranges and apples.
Then down to the Saatchi Gallery to see what’s on. Initial attraction is what’s on outside. Across from the gallery is a primary school playing field buzzing with little boys. Quite a lot of balls as well so no one has to wait long for a turn to kick.
We originally hoped to see an exhibition by French artist Lily Mixe, now living in Britain, but suspect her work loses a certain je ne sais quoi by being contained in an indoor gallery when the artist is known to use organic forms and urban placement. “The work really starts to take shape when Lily walks away. Making the art is only half of the process, placement of the piece is key to its completion, the transient and brutal spirit of nature frames the work, pasting drawings to a wall is an offering, and a sacrifice, an experiment, to see the drawings grow, change, and often be destroyed by the environment and time.” [lilymixe.wordpress.com]
Other works of interest, though, as there usually are. As in this universal soldier by a Delta Gamma Contemporary Art Academy student.
* Note £1= €1.16, $1.56 CAD
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