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6
Jan
2008
Sunday Shuffle
It’s Sunday afternoon. The sun is out and so is London. The streets in front of the office are a total buzz. Spitalfields pulse.
6
Jan
2008
Richard Serra’s Fulcrum
Wandering around Liverpool tube station looking for a post office and there in the middle of the plaza is Richard Serra’s Fulcrum. I took a trip to Seattle for a weekend to see one of his pieces at the Olympic Sculpture Park. Here was this one just hidden behind a train station.
6
Jan
2008
Saturday’s March
Today was the first day that my head was actually in London even though my carcass has been here for two days. So I went for a walk.
The area of Spitalfields has all kinds of street art. Banksy kills it when it comes to street art. Across the street from WK is this car that he hit a while ago. It is now preserved in a glass box. Apparently there was a Shepard Fairey show around here recently too.
As I made my way through town to the river, things start to get older. The 
Above is the steam engine that lifts the bridge. Incredible engineering feet unto itself.
Along the Southwark was a Sports Century exhibit.
I hedged at going to this Prison Museum. It was a bit campy and had a bunch of corny displays of things from prison life several hundreds of years ago. This town must have been so intense way back when. Fucked up teeth would be the least of your worries.
This is one of Louise Bourgeois’s spiders. The scale alone is impressive. The fact that she made this when she was almost 90 years old is hard to imagine. The true beauty of this piece is the vulnerability you feel when you walk between the legs of it. Now you’re high.
Her exhibit was basically a retrospective and it was really great. To the development of her work that spans 7 decades.
With that my head was full, the legs were stiff and I dragged my bones back over to Spitalfield. Not bad for one day.