Saturday12thMay07

Today I went to the main contemporary art gallery in Taipei. I love art galleries and tend to get a little carried away in them. Generally speaking, there's always a heap of stuff that's okay, and a heap of stuff that's really good, but its the stuff that really grabs your attention that I love. It doesn't have to be big or showy, there's just something about the piece that you're looking at that has you intrigued and for some inexplicable reason, you can't stop thinking about it.

But this art gallery didn't really do much for me. There was an exhibition from some guy that looked like and expressionist version of Escher which was interesting, but it wasn't particularly outstanding. It was all very safe. Even the work that was 'controversial' was still safe. Almost everything could fit very neatly into specific genres and could be read without much thought. It was good, it just felt a bit constipated. They did have a lovely little park at the back though.

It was a really good day though and when I got back to the dorms it was punctuated very nicely with a glass of actual, proper, not made from syrup, actually contains alcohol, white wine from an Estonian girl who lives a few doors up from me. She had managed to find it at a special shop somewhere. I miss wine. 'twas good.