WArt

My second real day off since being here, and seriously looked forward to! We went to a Chinese restaurant and Cherie treated me to Yum Cha for breakfast/brunch which was an interesting experience (I particularly liked the continual offering of food, though Cherie turned down all the interesting looking desserts on our behalf...booo!), but perhaps not one I'm that keen to repeat - that much meat at that time in the morning isn't really to my taste. I then hung around until Annie and Michael went down for their nap because Cherie was desperately trying to sort out cleaning the Toyota because somebody was coming to view it. Then I took the bus into town (narrowly avoiding a mini torrential downpour) and did a bit more looking around the shopping malls. Feeling a cultural dearth I also decided to visit the WA Museum of Art, where they had a visiting display entitled 'Relativity' by a woman called Christina Puccini. Her stuff - consisting largely of anthropormorphised vehicles, which were pretty cool, and weird humanoid creatures made of acrylic and human hair, which were as grossly compelling as they sound. In the upstairs of the gallery they had some really traditional ' Dream Time' art by Aboriginals, and another exhibition called '12', which was by Year 12 students from across WA, and Japan (in an exchange type situation), some of which were truly fantastic. The whole thing was jsut run on suggested donations too, which was pretty refreshing given the usual charges for visiting exhibitions in UK galleries. the only downpoint - something shared by the goawful Saatchi gallery - was the ban on photos. I really hate when galleries do that. Obviously I can understand the desire to keep art and intellectual property from being mercilessly copied, but it just seems pretty draconian to ban photos entirely. Anyway, after a decidedly cold and dready wait for a bus home, I got back ,and Cherie and  I watched 'High Fidelity' - which was not as a good a film as I remembered it being, but we still discovered a shared passion for John Cusack.

Goodnight!

A xx