I know, you’ll say it’s ALL too personal! Please do so…

If I (dare) talk/express myself after/about an exhibition I have just visited I might either :

a. destroy the hopes you had in understanding all the subtle meanings (QUIET A COLLECTION IN CONTEMPORARY ART!) hidden in some art works

or else

b. I can end up talking too much without really saying anything constructive or coherent – and believe me it wouldn’t be to add abstraction to those art works – which would or could disgust you from the show…while it might also intrigue you, who knows…but let’s take the first.

So, I decided to edit my visit in pictures, even repeat myself in images instead of words, if you are bored zapping IS permitted AND free!

First there was the “Hotel Sarkis” :

and “Siah Armajani“

The effect, the result was magnificent but I wasn’t really ready nor did I have my eyes wide awake…I even opened big the whole window under a freezing temp, realized how cold I was minutes later (but decided not to have a cold!!!).

Tomorrow is another day with another blue sky in perspective…our last day here so maybe (if I get “the call”) I’ll drop out of bed again!

So the pics reflect a lot lack of technical efficiencies. But what the heck, (I thought), the most important was to get a glimpse, to be able to share and to let  go your imaginations!

Then I got hungry for a huge breakfast…

Some coffee-tea-water stops were needed and desired…of course!

and finally why not have some fun with costumes, colors and some humor, the sunny side up!

Trying to get a seat? in your dreams maybe…I don’t even try, I chose a suitcase that is comfortable and solid instead. So you better have a luggage that can be used as a seat, now you might even need them at some airports.

You cannot, at least I can’t help feeling that secure but strangely insecure feeling of security…I know my sentence is weird, that is kind of my way of describing that feeling! There are some dirty looks if you dare letting go your suitcase’s hand, I am sure that I’m doing the same.The army is present too, am I reassured? good question…I hope.

But what I do like is the people with a big, huge P. All those strangers, those anonymous actors who are part, whether they like it or not, of that huge theater.The traveling ones, the ones coming back, the busy bodies, the business men (or women), the hungry ones, the ones looking up continuously to the information board (like me!)…No time to get bored – watching them is making up your own scenario, your own film…enjoy.

I thank each and everyone of them!

Managed to see David Hockney’s iPad/iPhone exhibition, “Fleurs fraiches” kind of magical, looks so easy to do and yet isn’t, I was off my feet with the force of his colors-their variations-and his touch… His thumb for the iPhone and pointing-finger for the iPad – he says- AND left hand to hold his cigarette for better concentration (says he!)

Busy hands busy creations but with such a style, such taste and harmony that words, at least mine, couldn’t transcribe. Tiny exhibition, worth visiting! It’s on till the 30th of january in Paris but rumors say that around 60 museums asked him to continue the show… SO THE SHOW MUST GO ON.

Unfortunately photos were not allowed…even with an iPhone!

…managed to start reading the book on Paris’s history (as you can see on the table in the photo somewhere up there ^)…inspired by my visit obviously…?

PS : I could help thinking about a very good friend of mine who is more than capable of creativity on HER iPad, so I will keep nudging her about it! (and hope others will do so too!)

let them spin

let them dance, feel the trance…and if I repeat, even if not all the same, the subject it is just to try to add on a “movement” – a spin!

let yourself feel the “Whirling dervishes” and get to know more about them (if you wish to whirl!)

They are also known as the Whirling Dervishes due to their famous practice of whirling as a form of dhikr (remembrance of God). Dervish is a common term for an initiate of the Sufi path; the whirling is part of the formal Sema ceremony and the participants are properly known as semazen-s.^[1]