Day 8

On my way to work today I had a scrummy apple pastry and cappuccino so I was full of (coffee) beans, bouncing around all over the place!

I’m getting used to the Italian style of having a quick small cup of coffee and my head seems to cope with it fine. So yay!

My first job of the day at the PGC was to clean Peggy and her dog’s graves then clean bird poo off the benches in the sculpture garden. Very glamorous.

9:50- 11 TES5 (Zero, zero, , zero, zero, zero, zero, zero...)

I kept myself entertained by giving myself some little activities to do :)

I found out that TES5 isn’t a perfectly rectangular room like I thought it was. It’s 57¾ of my feet long by 15 of my feet width ways at one end and 16⅓ the other. (I’m afraid I don’t know the measurement in double-decker buses!)

I was also going to count how many times I could spin around before I felt dizzy (using the clicker counter thingy) but someone walked in and ruined my fun :(

I some suggestions for more activities/games I could do to keep my entertained whilst guarding. I shall try my best to do them.

I also played a game where I had to pick my favourite artwork from each room. Seeing the same pieces everyday lets me study them in depth and I see different

things in them every day so my opinions on them change. Here is my favourite piece of art in TES5 today

Meeting Place: Rialto Bridge & Camponile Tower by Andrea Robbins and Max Becher 2010

It's a photo of part of the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas where they basically made a mini Venice but messed with the sizes and has been re-arranged. This would've been perfect for that Globalisation essay just looooved doing!

There are more photos on this website http://www.robbinsbecher.com/RBworks.html which I have enjoyed looking at. It's really weird. It basically epitomises what Roland Barthes said in 'Death of the Author'.

11-12 PC1

At the Velodrome -Jean Metzinger 1914

I love how you can see the movement in this painting. The cyclist moving and peddling so fast he's becoming transparent and we can hardly see him. We know that e is second place because we can see the concentration and determination in his eyes to beat the person in front.

12-1 PC2 9 ("Taxi in Arrivo!)

Setting for a Fairytale by Joseph Cornell 1942

I like this because it reminds me of christmas J

It's in a little box on Peggy's fireplace and I just think it's really sweet. Cornell was a very big fan of watching Ballet especially The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and I think he's managed to capture the feeling of watching these performances inside a little box. I have no idea how he's done it. Maybe I just feel the same way because I love ballet too?

1-2 PC3

They have taken down and replaced some of the main works in PC3 so I thought I'd pay a tribute to the ones that have gone.

They definitely aren't my favourite in that room but they are so much better then those that have replaced them!

The Antipope by Max Earnst 1942

It's always freaked me out a bit but it reminds me of Pirates of the Caribbean 2. I'm sure that's just what Max would've wanted :)

The Break of Day - Paul Delvaux 1937

I didn't actually get around to looking at this one probably but little kids enjoyed laughing at it.

There was one more but this stupid blog thing won't let me put up a picture of it for some reason. It's a Rene Margritte which wasn't that great and it didn't help that it was next to one of Magritte's best work (in my opinion). It's called 'Voice of Space' if ye wish to google it.

The rest of my day I just had lunch and then sat around doing nothing until closing time.

We then all got called into a meeting with the Capi where they broke the news to us that we all have to work 9:25- Midnight tomorrow! And I'm on the rota for wripping tickets at Palazzo all morning and then just sitting around giving four people 15 mins break from 3 until midnight! So yh, that should be fun.

Favourite visitors of the day

Everyone was actually lovely today. I met a nice Australian couple and I gave them a mini tour of the permanent collection and they didn't seem to notice me making it all up on the spot. When it was chucking out time they shouted 'Thank you Hailey!" across the sculpture garden which I thought was quite sweet.

I spent a wee while telling a gentleman that Joan Miro and Jean Arp were male and that all of the artists in Peggy's collection are male. She sure liked her men.

There was a man called George Takei who we all recognised as the man who came in 3rd place in 'I'm a Celebity... Get Me Out of Here!' a couple of years ago.

Apparently he used to be in a geeky TV program. Maybe some of you might have heard of it before...?