I feel awfully inadequate after that post, but shall bravely carry on!

"They will see us waving from such great heights, come down now, they'll say"

Good song, good song.

Art trip today! We drew from a live model, and it was AMAZING. Not even comparable to drawing from a photograph or reference picture. The realness, the life and almost tangibility, the motion it lends to your line, was lovely.

In the art gallery, there was a ...sculpture I guess...

a massive piece of thick rope,

which nearing the end, was unraveled bit by bit

to create these branches

getting thinner and thinner, the ends were hair sized

ps- the whole thing was suspended from the ceiling by tiny nylon threads.

so basically, this massive towering tree, branching it's way out of a single rope.

mind boggling.

Plus some really striking photography exhibits.

And a massive inflatable cloud! fabric stitched together in this gently undulating design to create an enormous twisting shape that seemed almost to breathe.

And some beautiful paintings of gooseberries. I like gooseberries. And cinnamon yogurt.

wish us luck, culture shock is tomorrow!