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Hello my fellow americans-

not too much new but lots of art news. so i have decided to go to bray tomorrow a.m. after i go to the organic food thing, which i found out on wed. was not hiring. Bray is on the east coast, and is about a 40 minute train ride using the DART. i want to go 1st because it is out of the city and supposed to like the ireland we all see in pictures, and second there is supposed to be a wonderful yarn shop there. i want to make myself an actually warm scarf. i just have one of my think wimpy ones, and it really does keep you a lot warmer in the wind here. why don't you just buy one christie? because i have been looking and the ones you buy are so cheap feeling, i am hopping to find some nice yarn for under 20 euro but we will see. so i went to the tourist office today to find out more about bray, and the person at the desk was pretty useless for that. i said do you have a guide about anything going on or perhaps a map or a website i can consult. no you just ride the dart there and you will see everything. good to know, not helpful. you can ask the irish for directions but don't ask them about any activities.

also the poetry reading i am going to on sunday with Fransesca is SHAMUS HEANEY. only one of the most famous contemporary writers. she did not tell me that and now that i know i am super stoked. for you book nerds you should be jealous, he rewrote Bewoulf a few years ago, it is one of the most popular versions. his other book is called finders keepers. he is fantastic. yipee.

so i bought i ticket for the LUAS and illeagully rode a different one. oops. i didn't know that the train starts and ends in like 3 different places. so i thought i was catching a connecting train but once i got to the station, the woman told me i needed to catch it up by st. stephen's green, basically if i would have gotten caught they prosecute you and i would have been deported. thanks for playing...better luck next time.

once i got on the right LUAS i made it to one of the 'burbs and applied in a mall for some jobs. there are many vacancies at this mall so i am hoping. i also applied at some random shops around the city centre, including a Haagen Dazs on Wicklow Street! that ice cream scooping experience could come in handy:) i applied at few hotels, and got a call from a temp. agency to come in for an interview, so things i am hoping are fine. i am watching this guy sitting next to me type with one finger and know that i have some commmputer skills, sorry the keyboard is sticky.

so the art afternoon-by the way, when in ireland, do not buy dessert in ireland. they have no skills with the dairy! i bought a piece of cheese cake a few weeks ago, texture of crap, like skim milk whipped, not thick and creamy. i really wanted some ice cream with my strawberries, so i got some neopolitan from the grocery store, that said made from irish milk, aka skim milk texture again, not cream. so fyi: when in ireland do NOT get a dairy delight, it will be a dairy downer:(

art sorry, lots to say but on the other hand, remember the candy bar tour i was doing? well that has been officially stopped due to the BBC reporting that Turkish Delight ( i almost bought one on tuesday) is pulling its product from shelves due to Salmonella contamination from its product. gross. i am done with that experiment, i started laughing to myself when i heard this, surprisingly i was in a mall.
"Sesame seeds are contaminated with Salmonella based on the California Department ... a) Cadbury DAIRY MILK TURKISH *** Milk Chocolate with Turkish Delight ..." this is what i could find when i googled it.

but the art really this time. so i went to the gallery that is about 2 blocks from my house and found this wonderful northern ireland photography. i am going to do some research about her, because they didn't have much at the gallery, but her name is Janet Preston and she creates these beautiful photographs, i think using a liquid emulsion and on some multiple negs, but they could be digital, i couldn't tell, they were way gorgeous and were of decriped buildings in dublin and remains, and look like some were hand colored, but not sure. i will find out more...again if i had 500 euro just laying around i would buy a piece of her work as well.
@ this same gallery there was a large, 17 ft x 12ft painting of a flower and placed inside the flower which i think was supposed to be part of it, totally a fallic symbol, i laughed and thought, this must be painted by a man! the flower was so beautiful except for that random fallic symbol.

another artist i really liked was Piia Rossi, she painted on little blocks of wood (4 in x 5.5 in) in blue and white paint the front of a house like it appears in home building plan magazines and then the inside floor plan. she was making a comment about how small the housing is in ireland, but the fact that people still pay for it. it was so cute as well because at the bottom of each one she wrote "truthfully drawn and measured by Piia Rossi." LoL.

I also went to st. stephen's green for a nap. i handed out CVs along the way. when i got up and walked outside the park there were all these painters who had their work up on the outside gate, all around the 188 acers. there were sailboats, and landscapes, and flowers, fairys, the liffey some quays etc. one in particular that stood out was an artist who made these black red and orange paintings of places in dublin. there is a lot of construction going on all around town, to make the city more industrial, so there are cranes etc. all around the city and he made these paintings showing that. but you could see all the violence and greed and etc. that the artist was showing. it was very discomforting, and i am sure he didn't sell any paintings but even all those "bad vibes" i was feeling from them were important, it made me remember i was alive. it's like if we never got sick we would never know how wondeful it felt to be well...kind of things.

so now that i have posted way too long again. i will try next time to be shorter. so have a great weekend, i hope i will, i'm sure i will, there is lots more to do here then in duluth, unfortuately not much at night besides pubs. so goodnight.

xoxo,
christie