So nice to meet Rosannie in town, we met at Tower Bridge, one of those sunny days when you really love living in London. This bridge is amazing, it opens like a Christmas gift, I always imagine flying over the gap in an aston martin. Anyway we wandered down at the marina and saw the fancy boats, went to the Samuel Smiths called Captain Kidd , which is a cheap, tasty, good and friendly pubs along the river…I think it would be full of tourists it they ventured a wee bit east. Then we dashed in the in Wapping Art Project a show by Yohji Yamamoto. Don’t look up the Wapping website, it’s unusable. Also very loud echoey music so we didn’t have a drink in the cafe, we are clearly too then not enough now. However this installation was great and the idea of this place in Wapping..near Shadwell, off the beaten track is very commendable and the building is very cool.
The show took my breath away, you could row a boat around this black water with a giant dress like a lit magic lampshade, the movement revealed the water which until then looked like another giant inverted dress. It’s all in the dark, the only light is in the hooped skirt. The water bottom goes on for ever. Very beautiful.
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