Dear Paris, I am glad you and I are friends again.

Paris is slow. Very slow.
Imagine a Thanksgiving day in NY only lasting for a month and minus the turkey and you get Paris in August: empty.

The art world is asleep, somewhere travelling.

Only one things left to do: sit and watch the naked city and accept what it is offering.

Back where it all started

Anish Kapor was offered the Grand Palais for this year's MONUMENTA (once a year the great space of the grand Palais is one artist's "property" for couple of months. The artist can invade de space how he/she (though never a she was yet invited) wants. Kapor decided to fill the air with a giant ballon. One color - one piece objet - Gigantic and poetic.

First you enter the balloon. You come in by a tiny door and feel projected into the space. You are inside. Dizzy. The only light that comes in is filtered by the skin of the balloon, changing depending on the time of the day or the weather. The air is rare and the sounds muffled. If it wasn't for the 30 others person in there with you, you could almost feel in an intimate place.
A very intimate place : a womb.

I did surprise myself thinking "that must have feel like that"

Birth.

You experience it from the outside. The Grand Palais itself is an amazing place. Filled with light because of its glass roof, cold because of its concrete floor. And there in the middle like a excrescence, that wins over the metal structure is Levitan.

Of course some will say it is just a big balloon but it is also a color, the sensuality of the material, the need of touching it and above everything is the voice that reminds you that we are tiny. Very tiny.

In bed with (almost) me for only 69 euros : now that's a cheap date"

Ikea is everybody's friend. I have to say it isn't mine (at least for today):

living sculpture

Theo Jansen's STRANDBEEST:

Animaris Umerus walking - June '09 from Strandbeest on Vimeo.

 

happy loony tuesday

 

xxa

moment in time

earlier, my lovely friend tatiana sent me a link to "25 Strange and Brilliant Polaroids of Famous People," a collection of polaroids recently compiled by flavorwire.  i've always loved instant, analog work so this project is way up my ally.

click on the photo below to see the complete project!

No explanation needed... just happiness

Hello friend it has been a long time,

Maia Flore - "Sleepelevation"

I have been really bad at sharing thoughts lately. Sorry.

There was some fairs, so affairs (not really "s" but i thought that was a cool sentence).
Drinks and dinners. Sun and shine. Work and work.

The day is sunny and though it didn't start so well a good friend of mine adviced to listen to Donna Summer and I have to say it works magicaly!

I mean can it get better than "Last dance" or "Bad Girls" ?
Yes, probably with "No more tears". Donna + Barbra = double *shake it shake it*!

Also in 13 days I will be on a plane to NYC and that is enough to make me smile everytime a cloud is around!