We went to visit friends and family in Melbourne last week, and of course catch up with Dali's Liquid Desire exhibition at the Victorian art gallery. Dali was fantastic and Melbourne put on its usual wide range of weather all on one day. Sadly the street art has been severly overtagged. Those that cant do art "dissing" those that can.We found the current Pompeii exhibition at the Museum of Melbourne to be very poignant, especially the room with casts of the bodies of people and animals huddled together in a vain attempt to escape the toxic ash and fumes from the volcano. It was one of those reminders of the sheer power of Mother Gaia and how precarious our grip on life can be.
There were so many great Dali images in the publicity brochure, I just had to go play with one in my visual journal.
Sounds like a great visit Karin. Wouldn't mind a trip down to see Dali either come to think of it. When i was all hooked up in hospital a year ago, tubes everywhere, I caught the most amazing doco on Dali on ABC late one night. It was completely transfixing...I forgot where I was...the doco explored his interest in quantum theory and all manner of cutting edge theories...his meetings with some great minds. The moment...Dali...hospital...that was all so surreal!
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