CROSSING THE TUILERIE GARDENS

If you want to, you can walk everywhere in Paris. I do. As I was seeing Hector at 5pm and it was just 3-30 and leaving behind a very long queue outside the Jeu de Paume (see below) - I decided to go on foot to the Odeon - some 5 kilometres away.

Another wonderful thing about Paris is that there is always some exhibit in a garden or a museum close at hand. Here there is the delight and fun of Kusama following her exhibition at the Beaubourg in 2011. I hope that I will be as energetic as she is when I am 80 but would prefer not to need access to a mental institution. She is very preoccupied by death and says so but when you see these statues, they seem so positive.


 

And further on there was William de Kooning 

William de Kooning "Standing Figure" 1968-1984


and Magdalena Abakanowiez (Polish and aristocratic) - her statues are tall and even taller. I watched as the pigeons and the seagulls vied for a place on top. After a moment, a seagull won. 

Abakanowiez - Manus Ultimus 1997

And the seagull won the round

Popped into the Beaux Arts as there was a photographic exhibition on trees. I felt like hugging them, except the very tall tree standing out in a large garden at the end of the 19 century 

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