Venice glass

To have it? No, this is not good idea for me. But I love shop windows in Venice with all those plates, beads and earrings.

a citizen of Padova

After long day of trip we went to a restaurant in Padua a bit too early. The door was open but staff was surprised seeing guests at half past six. We could observe how the restaurant was preparing to another evening – like in the film I Served the King of England. The main hero of the film was like an actor playing in a spectacle. The same was with those waiters in the restaurant.
In the photo: a citizen of Padua. You can meet such pictures almost everywhere.

Newcastle - detail

I couldn’t take a photo in the gallery... so an architectural detail in Newcastle… Please see the picture of the sculpture in a guide of Exhibition “Love”

Marc Quinn (born 1964)
Kiss
Love Laing Art Gallery

An angel and a scull…

I found that angel when I was going from a train station to a hotel in Venice. It is an extraordinary welcome, isn’t it? An angel and a scull… probably it refers to traditional warnings placed on electric devices. There was the first surprising thing in that day. Second happened to me in the hotel. W took a shower, after I had came there. At one point I found a bottle of shampoo on the bottom of shower cubicle. It had been left by the previous occupant of that room. A chambermaid didn’t notice that because it was possible only from inside of the cubicle. I used soap form the bottle. It was for me like a wink to that person – like saying hello.

Rose made out of crêpe paper

In the Polish Peoples Republic for Labour Day there were prepared flowers made out of crêpe paper. After collapsing of the Polish Peoples Republic the tradition celebrating the Labour Day vanished. I was thinking that with the Labour Day also disappeared the tradition of making flowers made out of crêpe paper, so I was really surprised when I saw a crêpe paper rose. It was in Bieszczady mountains in an art gallery. To be honest that was not only one rose… there was a lot of such roses in different colors. They are smaller and more precise then those from behind the time. What more, they are registered as a local product. An artist, someone who can make beautiful things from nothing, saved this technique in such a beautiful way.

fish

In the Museum of Modern Art in Newcastle I so a book about graffiti. In the book there were only pictures, not any analysis of the art. I was disappointed… I have also a lot of graffiti in my collection…but even for me it is not enough only to make pictures.
In the picture: Fish somewhere in Aarhus.

owl and ruins

The Alnwick Castle was very surprising for me. It is unbelievable mix of styles and artistic forms. There was something beautiful and interesting in every chamber but generally I felt like being in some big lumber room. For example in old beautiful library besides many shelves of books there was big plasma TV and two prepared dogs. In this unbelievable mess, as the most interesting thing, I found very small mascot of owl which was hidden behind a leaf of acanthi.
It was put there in order to attract children visiting the Castle. In every room there was such mascot somewhere. Children have to find it, and thanks to that game they pay more attention to the exhibition.
In the photo: I didn’t like inhabited castle, probably because I generally like much more mysterious places. That’s why I preferred the Holly Island with its monastery in ruins.