Back in England and here I am trying to piece together everything that we have seen in the past five days. Firstly I want to add a couple of photographs to put you in the picture!
This was our hostel. Really quite comfortable and I could recommend it. We shared a room for four people with an on suit bathroom. (and one bunk bed!)
Our first outing was to the cathedral with it's impressive spire.
And hey! Inside we found this labyrinth! and, many, many majestic and beautiful things.
Afterwards we had a beer!
I feel very nervous with posting the Art on this blog. Some galleries allowed us to take photographs as long as they were only for our use. In others it was clearly Verboten! After discovering that Canterbury has copyright on all Cathedral images taken, and that some buildings of importance also, I am nervous.
But in the context of this being our redthreadtrail project communication blog I am going to take the risk.
Cologne is on the Rhein and in-between our gallery visits we strolled along its banks.
In the distance you can see the Hohenzollern bruckle (bridge) Where lovers go to pledge their love by attaching padlock to the railway railings/fence.
Apparently it it an international trend.
In my last posting on Wednesday I mentioned The Kunst Sammlung Museum. Here is a picture of the inside of the converted State building. (very different on the outside) It was here we saw an exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans and several individual room installations. I am still trying to get my head around everything that we saw that day. It was an intense dose of contemporary works of Art on a grand scale, and conveyed many possibilities for different approaches to making installation Art! Including documentation as Art, which is what we are thinking about for our project. With only two days to set up our exhibition, careful, and realistic planning is going to be the key. I am looking forward to us meeting together to do some project work as a group.
I am not going to write too much as I have tomorrows post to do. Also I will leave some things for Rachel to report on when she does her Monday post. I know that she will have other things to highlight. Well it is an impossible task to describe everything. That would be an essay!
The Campus library is open on Saturdays now and so I popped into college to sort out my photographs. No mean task. I saw that Sim, our technician, had put up one of my paintings on my request so that I could stand back and look at it..... Put it this way I am now not satisfied with it at all after having had a certain amount of distance from it!! I will wait until I have my studio critic before I take it down. But I am unhappy with it! and as for those creases..
Until tomorrow!
Jennie
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