Post by Grubb.
We took a ferry from the Thiel Gallery.
And ended up at Stockholm’s Photography Museum. Before we checked out the exhibits, we had lunch at a restaurant on the top floor. Great view.
Some people were enjoying it less than others.
After lunch, the exhibits. Diana Markosian documented her journey to America comparing the soap opera she saw on TV in Moscow (“Santa Barbara”) with the actual experience of being in Santa Barbara which was like a family soap opera but less glamorous.
While I was looking at Markosian’s photograph of a phone above a display of the actual phone, a mid-school teenaged girl came to the phone on display and started playing with the dial, totally fascinated about how this weird instrument worked. I tried to snap a shot of her, but her parents scolded her to put the phone down before I had a chance.
A major theme with the other artists on exhibit were misgivings about being inharmonious with nature. So, “a blood-dimmed tide is loosed”…
And that library ain’t what it used to be…
But a British photographer, Cig Harvey, had a different take on the world around us, one which Ella and I totally identify with as we walk around Stockholm.
