Last Sunday was a fairly eventful one! I trotted into Brussels wishing to make the most of the wonderful Belgian sunshine. My first stop was the new Morandi Exhibition at the Bozar. Although the exhibition was a little dull- apparently he had quite a thing for vaes, shells and pastels- I was lucky enough to hear some of On Kawara "One Million Years" project being taped. One Million Years is an ongoing epic work conceived by on Kawara in 1969, documenting the passage and marking of time. Public readings of One Million Years, with a man and a woman taking turns reading Past and Future dates together, have been taken place in cities across the world, ever since the first reading in 1993 at Dia Center for the Arts in New York. Each new reading continues in a numerical order from the previous session, until all the years are read.
My next stop was to a local Linux Programming Group and then an English language book shop. After that I met my friend at the artifical beach in Brussels. Although the beach is a sprinkling of sand on the river canal it is strikingly similar to the actual Belgian coast where all people do is eat, drink and relax!
My next stop was not quite as pleasent. I ended up choking on a piece of plastic from inside a milk carton, despite express warnings from my mother not to do so! My neighbour had to ring me to hospital and I was kept in overnight. It is not a process I plan on repeating any time soon..
.. In perspective, life is too short to spend an afternoon looking at painting of vases so live it to the full. And drink from a glass instead of the carton.
A bientot,
Niamh
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