Räven slank ur näven.

I don’t know how to say it in English, but you know the story, the one with Snow White and the seven dwarfs. One of the dwarfs sings a song about him catching a fox, but it escaped… have never, though I’m from the countryside, seen a fox – until today. I was waking home in the dusk from the ICA trough St James Park and all of the sudden when I look up there is a small fox trotting towards me. He passes a meter or two away from me on my right side. Totally ignoring that I was there. Amazing. The park is pretty big, but I would never have thought that it would be big enough to hold foxes. And if he didn’t live in the park, where did he come from?

Anyway, I came from the ICA where I had been at the members’ preview for an exhibition called Memorial to the Iraq War. My expectations weren’t great, and I wasn’t surprised. In general, to be harsh, it looked like something that any art or creative class could have put together in a day or two. Maybe that’s the amount of time they did spend on it, but then it shouldn’t be on the ICA. Obviously some of the work did stand out. I particularly liked the video piece in the upper gallery. It ended with a photo of a soldier laying down in a stair, aiming his rifle on an unseen target. Above him on a platform was a small boy peeing down on the soldiers helmet. A voice said something like: Guns might be the ultimate image of power, but gestures are the real power. Another nice little thing was a white paper wall with cut out mouths with people standing on the other side pushing their lips through the holes. It made such a small imprint on the wall, the five or six pairs of lips that came through, but the effort to stand there at push your lips in to the tiny holes…

Other than that I had a tutorial with Duncan today. It was really helpful, but at the same time made everything harder! The are the complete opposites, Francois and Duncan… And as always is getting opposite points of view really helpful, but it forces you to take a stand on your own. So that is what I’m going to spend the next couple of days doing… The tutorial was over lunch at the local pizza place. Fabulous! And it would have been even more fabulous if we had gotten that table at the new local Italian restaurant…. (The new place got the lamp I love, so Duncan made up a plan for how we are going to convince David that it is great! Or maybe I should just get it while he is back in Sweden….)

After lunch I went for some shopping, without any great success. The dress I’ve been longing for was not at all as nice when I finally had it on… So now I don’t know at all what I should go for with the birthday money. Bla, bla… I think that would cover today’s adventures.