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Today i went to the Saatchi Gallery, where there was an all-Chinese artist exhibition. It was amazing:

this "angel" figure was extremely realistic, and its skin and grey-haired were pretty weird and disturbing. they were so tactile.




I feel as though he and I have a few things in common.

This piece was the coolest, and very bizarre. The men in motorized wheelchairs are extremely life-like, all made to look like old men in military costumes and wheeling independently around the room, while disoriented observers try and navigate between them...

I love this one. The man looks so perplexed.

Afterwards I went to the Tate Modern. I took a few photos of the installation in the lower galleries, which was like an insanely huge spider thing, with bunk beds underneath with books attached to them, with some "outdoor sculptures" and a video playing at the end. The idea was that we are in the future, and outdoor scultpures have to be brought in so they don't get wrecked, because it is constantly raining. It seems to me you have to come up with something like that in order to fill the enormous warehouse-sized space. Last time I was there it was a sound piece.

It was probably a good thing that you're not allowed to take pictures inside the actual gallery. There was just too much to look at, and I always find art galleries are so exhausting anyway-- my eyes actually start to hurt. Too much to compute. The great thing is that it's free, so i can go back anytime.

Afterwards I walked across the 'Millenium Bridge' to St. Paul's Cathedral:

When I got inside, there was a mass going on and the choir was singing. It was so beautiful that I had to sit down to listen until it was over. I'm not religious, but the architecture and the music were so powerful, and made me feel calm. I thought about my grandpa.

All in all, it was a good day.