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Affichage des articles du juillet 23, 2013

FROM BASEL TO PARIS TO BERLIN MEETING THE FANTASTIC

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I am in between two trips. It could be called from Basel to Berlin - via Paris. Today is the hottest day so far and even on my balcony it is 35°. I don’t mind  as the air circulates around the flat. So what would I do? The swimming pool (where of course I would not have been alone) or an exhibition? No comments. Anne had brought me up a small brochure on an Inuit artist, Kenojuak Ashevak. Strange in a way, I don’t often think about going to such cultural centres as this - the Canadian - and perhaps I should see what is going on in all of them more often. This was to be a solo exhibition of her work. A tribute to an artist who died in January this year at 85. She was a key figure in the well known Inuit cooperative in Cape Dorset located on the south western tip of Baffin Island, Nunavut. This maybe the Arctic but not a part of the world I know, so I googled it. 10° degrees today. An average snow fall of 149 days in the year and the hotest it has been is 25° Just happens to go down to