something fun for dark times!

I don't know about you but I find the atmosphere in and around the world so awful after the American election that has put a criminal in the White House. It's progressively appalling because the entire crime family expands with all his appointments.

Sacré Bleu! Quoi faire? We civilised people ask to our friends. How can this thing have happened to the greatest democracy in the world?

Well, it's probably 'karma', 'payback', 'hubris', etc, etc,,. We've meddled in so many elections around the world that went pear-shaped

because of us that we are no better than our European cousins across the pond. But hey!

So here are several of my absolute faves that have hung around my desktop for ages. This top one is the creation of a clever person here around Byron Bay. It was an installation at the local cinema a few years back. My brother is the fellow with the long hair in the chair. I loved this set of oversized balloons in suspiciously feminine colours more suited for a lingerie shop. But it works well in an otherwise nondescript but pleasant waiting lounge at the Palace cinema.     

I love this piece below by Sean Scully. It's clever and colourful, something that escapes me when I see many of his paintings.

 

Sean Scully

I wish I knew where this red balloon was jammed into a thin street between two brick buildings. It could be in London, possibly Amsterdam or Berlin? Anyway, we need more of these things.

Below, is a piece by the 'enfant terrible' of Los Angeles. Personally, I don't care much for Paul McCarthy's work. It's usually on the vulgar side of the sunny Californian street. It's the work of someone who did too much LSD. I don't get his work maybe because I haven't done drugs in a long time. And yet, here in the Place Vendôme he erects a butt plug as a Christmas tree decoration that infuriated Parisians. It's a double entendre which I think is slightly brilliant. I think for a four week installation it's not just tolerable but kind of cool. And though I can sometimes appreciate these narcissistic artists, in the end, he's a very, very bad boy and probably needs a stiff spanking!

Paul McCarthy

On the other hand I really love this clothes pin, I think for a parc in Switzerland but I'm probably wrong. It's green and civilised like the Swiss I believe. I do know that it's part of a golf course near one of the fairways. Nice!

Mehmet Ali Uysal

So the moral of the tale is to be curious despite all the dreadful things going on in the world. Vivre la création!