Paul Day

Earlier in the summer i visited London, we went by train and of course went via st Pancras station. I was amazed by its rehabilitation and by the enormous sculpture looking over the whole station. Its stands high and prominent at the end of the station and is a tremendous symbol of the romance that comes with a train station. The meeting of two lovers kept by distance, and unite on the platform and hold each other tightly to make up for all the time they have lost apart. It is a brilliant sculpture that pays so much attention to detail, that you can actually imagine the cliche seen and the real feelings that come with it. It is so enormous that i feel it becomes apart of the architecture, the same way architecture affects you when you are interacting with it, so does this sculpture; it gives you an extremely warm feeling.

Dot to Dot

This is a relatively simple style of type face on a flat 2D format, however it does have its little quirky surprises. For instance, especially with a dotted style of type face you do no expect the small flicks off letters like m, n, r, a, b and the dots on the i to have two dots in them. Its just a little unexpected, but the effect is quite nice, as the letters some how feel extended even if it is only by one dot. Some of the pictures are taken from the Montreal Museum of Art, it is an e-art exhibition.

Patrick Hughes

Perceptionist

I recently visited the Leeds Art Gallery, as I heard about a surrealist exhibition that was taking place from August till November. I saw the work of Patrick Hughes and was dazzled by his grasp of perception and ways of manipulating it. I have looked further at his work online and have found some more pieces of work that were very interesting.

http://www.patrickhughes.co.uk/index.htm

There is a mind boggling video clip at the top of the page above, it is of one of his pieces of work, which at first seems to be flat. However the secret to his deceit is then revealed at the piece is spun all the way round. His control and understanding over perception is endless, and there is a nice little description of the science of perspective on the website.

Dog named Wellington

Wellington boot dogs

These caught me by surprise, and freaked me out at first if I am honest. Walking through the streets of Padstowe these pair were standing guard outside a charming little gallery. The boy dog, well I am referring to him as the boy because he is grey and bigger, had a note hanging from his collar asking for donations to the charity R.N.L.I. I thought it was more than worthy of a few quid, but I have to confess I didn’t make the link with R.N.L.I straight away. I know your thinking how could I not, in Cornwall, near the sea all the clues were there, so I asked the lady and she explained. I just thought they were a really nice way of grabbing peoples attention and it certainly caught mine.