leviathan

today was day off for “pentecost”.  i was reminded how cool it was to be living in paris. after jj got up very late, we just “popped” over to the grand palais to see an exhibition. it took us an hour and a half to go, see the show and come back. luckily we went at lunch time, so the line wasn’t too long. every year an artist is asked to build a sculpture to best utilize the enormous space of the grand palais. anish kapoor, an english/indian artist, made a bulbous organic shape that looked and felt like a giant mutant purple exercise ball. it was sort of a cross shape – with a center part and 3 balls extending off of it. it was quite gorgeous and very cool. i decided that it was one of those artworks which was cool not for any deep meanings (that it may have), but just because someone actually went and made it. first you enter the big display space and walk around the monster. then you “enter the beast” by going through airlock doors – because it is INFLATED like an exercise ball. it was cloudy when we went so we couldn’t see much through the ball, but on sunny days i think, you can see the light coming through the glass dome ceiling of the grand palais.  in fact, it was quite womblike.  i heard there was a concert given inside.  jj and i had lunch at the snack bar there, looking at the leviathan.  then went home.

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