In Belfast we visited the Lagan waterfront near where the Titanic was built. We found an exhibition 'Eye of the Docks' so decided to take in another exhibition.
The art was displayed in a dank passageway and chambers under the Lagan Weir. Real bottom of the harbour stuff. We climbed downstairs into the eerie cavern below the river to view the 'spectacular multimedia installation'........ actually weird changing images displayed in spaces inferior to a torture chamber.
The prize went to a large musty chamber with a vast series of 'donkey coats' suspended from the ceiling. For th unitiated. donkey coats are the felt and leather jackets worn by Irish waterside workers unloading the ships.
We re emerged into the Belfast sun not having seen another soul but pleased to have escaped being sold into slavery.
2 comments:
First, I hope you didn't buy a boat there. I hear they sink.
The rest? Sounds kind of weird and creepy but cool :)
(Did you at least make enquiries as to what price you'd have got for him/her (depending on which one of you's reading this)?)
Yeah, I'd definatley stick to buying pottery. (Or linen, it's much lighter to carry)
Sounds like a fascinating installation.
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