Forgot to mention that I went to Aarhus - for a variety of reasons, but also to check out the new ARoS Museum. It's a great building and the collection is all-round interesting, but to me, the most interesting bits were:
1. The CoBrA collection.
2. Ron Mueck's BOY
3. Five Angels for the Millenium by Bill Viola.

The latter is in turns beautiful and scary, moving and menacing, touching the viewer with the use of image and sound. It is really a study of movement, of bodies and water, of matter and life.
BOY, on the other hand, impresses firstly because of its size. A massive boy, crouching, looking down on the viewer, at the same time intimidated and intimidating. It calls to mind Mueck's other brilliant Dead Dad, a miniature man, naked, dead.


I slept all afternoon. Then I ate strawberry-cake and spoke with friends on the phone forever. I'm quite happy here.


Gwyn & Chris are naming their baby Apple. The first case of a privately sponsored child? Next; 'We bring Apple anywhere', say Gwyneth and Chris, while gazing lovingly at the child. 'Me too'! says the child, pulling a laptop from behind the mother's back.

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