SHARING WITH ME

Onto Teshima. This whole trip stemmed from a heart-beat as I told you in the first chapter. But let’s go back a little to Christian Boltanski. It was in 2010 when he created the third edition of Monumenta. An artist is asked every year to use the whole of the Grand Palais with an installation. 
 Boltanski - Monumenta 2010  Boltanski’s  work brought  home the ineluctability of death and the fragility of human life.  I can remember so well as it was a powerful physical and psychological experience, with the spectator placed "in the heart" of the work rather than looking on. Visitors were welcomed by a wall of ageing metal before discovering, beneath the cupola roof, a mountainous pile of clothes. A crane, - randomly grabbed garments from the pile, discarding others, while around the Nave clothes were laid out on the floor in a grid of rectangles to the accompaniment of amplified heartbeat. Every sound was different. Christian Boltanski was deeply marked by the memor

Onto Naoshima…In my mind today I am somewhat confused by what transport we took. The men had taken me in hand and I followed them both meekly! (More or less). Sometimes we had a reserved place in a train but a lot of the time we didn’t. This is perhaps why I am confused. I’m certain that we didn’t take the Bullet train to Naoshima ( Naoshima is an island) but when I saw it for the first time, I was taken aback. A huge streamlined Duck. Pristine clean inside and out not to mention how comfortable and fast it was. The Shinkansen as it is known also known is a network of high speed railway lines in Japan. The maximum operating speed is 320 km/h (200 mph). Hate to say it, but it’s more comfortable than our TGV and certainly more spacious. In simple terms, I would describe Naoshima as an Art island It is known for its many contemporary art museums. In all, there are five major sites on the island - and although we arrived on a Sunday mid-afternoon we were to discover that most