matthew barney: drawing restraint

deery-lou.
on saturday i went to see the matthew barney: drawing restraint exhibition at the leeum. the exhibition was amazing. it was like nothing i've seen before. i wasn't sure what to expect seeing that i'm not familiar with his work. but after listening to horace tell me about the artist i knew it was something that i needed to see for myself. i'm glad i had the opportunity to see it. there was definitely a lot too take in. i'm not going to even try to explain it. not really sure i could or even give it justice if i did. its one of those things that will probably take me a few days to let it all sink it. there were some petroleum jelly sculptures that were way cool. if any of you have a change to view this exhibition you must. one really cool thing that the exhibit had was a children sections helping them to understand barney's work. my favorite by far was drawing restraint 7. the installation consisted of three-channel video, photographs, drawings, and sculpture. the narrative of the video takes place in a limousine entering manhattan. there's a hairless young satyr in the front seat chasing his tail, while two developed satyrs [a ewe and a ram] wrestle in the back seat. it was wild.

wrestling satyrs, drawing restraint 7

with our admission we were suppose to see his film drawing restraint 9, which bjork composed the soundtrack, but they don't have viewings on the weekends for the month of october. not sure why. just another example of kl. although we can come back in november with our stub to see the film. i'm looking forward to that. they are also going to show his cremaster cycle film which i might go check out as well.

afterwards horace and i went to hannam, an international market. here's a list of the few items i bought:

bologna - 4,150 won
flour tortillas - 2,300 won
tomato soup - 1,500 won
mexican chili beans - 1,500
montery and cheddar cheese - 7,000 won

yes i actually paid $7 for some cheese. desperate times call for desperate measures. i had a couple of pieces today and boy was it good. cheese rules!!! we then had dinner at the same indian restuarant i went to for vickies goodbye party. it is so yummy, as my students would say. while on the subway back to ansan this man who i think was pakistani started talking to me. he asked me if i was russian. when i told him no he then asked if i was pakistani. i was like "umm no." then he asked if i was korean. finally i told him i was a miguk [american]. the whole time he was talking to me i couldn't really understand what he was saying. it sounded like he was speaking to me in korean or with other accent. now i can understand someone asking me if i was russian but korean or pakistani…come on! after dropping off my goodies i went over to horace's were we spent the wee hours of the evening drinking coctails and talking. we hadn't done that in some time. it was actually quite nice to hang out and chill.

today i did nothing but watch tv and do some mild cleaning. love these lazy sundays. oh, it also seems that winter is coming and coming soon. since friday its been super cold. its almost time for the white jacket. YEAH!!!

be well…

p.s. i almost forget. i bought a label gun. hee hee