On Saturday Damien had to work again which was good as I also have heaps of work at the moment. It is also the first weekend we have been in London for nearly a month, so nice just to take it a bit easy. It is the beginning of a term as well as report writing time. Agggrrrgh. Our friend Mel has been away working at another hotel so we organized for her to come over to a cheese and wine dinner. Me being me, I couldn’t leave it at just cheese and wine, so I cooked a Patatas Tortia (Spanish Omelet). Sunday was a bit more fun. There was a car show on the street around the corner which was a bit random. There was Herby, the Back to the Future car, the Bat Mobile, and the Ghost busters van.
After this we headed through Hyde Park towards Chelsea. This is a very fancy area of London so the shops were all designer as were the cars. We popped into the Saatchi Gallery, which is full of contemporary art. The best piece was a work by Richard Wilson called 20:50. It is a site specific ‘Oil Installation’ which basically fills an entire room with sump oil. You enter the room and notice a really strong smell of oil but it actually looks like there is a dark perspecs floor which mirrors the ceiling. On closer inspection you notice that it is actually ripping under the ventilation. We also liked an installation by the artist Tessa Farmer which is contained within a perspecs box filled with dead insects. They are suspended by fishing wire and when you look very closely you notice tiny little figures actually riding the insects. Very freaky. After the gallery we headed to the hotel where Mel was working to say hi and have a coffee. It was then getting late so we called it a day and headed home.
After this we headed through Hyde Park towards Chelsea. This is a very fancy area of London so the shops were all designer as were the cars. We popped into the Saatchi Gallery, which is full of contemporary art. The best piece was a work by Richard Wilson called 20:50. It is a site specific ‘Oil Installation’ which basically fills an entire room with sump oil. You enter the room and notice a really strong smell of oil but it actually looks like there is a dark perspecs floor which mirrors the ceiling. On closer inspection you notice that it is actually ripping under the ventilation. We also liked an installation by the artist Tessa Farmer which is contained within a perspecs box filled with dead insects. They are suspended by fishing wire and when you look very closely you notice tiny little figures actually riding the insects. Very freaky. After the gallery we headed to the hotel where Mel was working to say hi and have a coffee. It was then getting late so we called it a day and headed home.
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