Monday, September 17, 2007

The next trip was a day in London for Jon to potter round a museum whilst I went to Anthony Gormley's Blind Light exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. It was fantastic. Being in the box was one of the most amazing experiences - basically it was a perspex box with a humidifyer belching out damp 'smoke' which you walked into. People loomed out of the mist and you really did not know that someone was standing a couple of feet away. When we were standing outside, people inside came to the perspex walls to peer out before being absorbed back into the smoke. Once inside it was the most isolating and disorienting feeling because it was so bright white that you couldn't actually see anything outside yourself - what you were seeing were the 'floaters' that move about on your eyeballs - until another person hove into view. I'm so glad I went. Space station was brilliant as well. He's also got these large figures ('Event Horizon') placed on buildings near the Hayward, all looking toward the gallery. this was really disconcerting too as, whenever you looked out of the building, one of these figures was 'looking' at you from a roof or balcony.

In the evening we had dinner at Levantine with Keith before catching the last train home.

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