Feeling incomplete

The weekend is over and I have a fat kitten on my lap as I tap this. Will head to the warmth and comfort of bed soon.

I guess I am still reeling somewhat from the incident on Friday night - feeling very unsettled and incomplete at the moment, I suspect because there are still so many things that need to be done to fix the damage done to the car.

I dropped in to Lukey's later this afternoon to lend him the 17" flat screen monitor. While drinking green tea, we looked at his old photos, all taken on slide film. They are very, very good. I've never been much of a fan of abstract photography but Luke's images are very intriguing - they are visually appealing, but also ask to be studied more closely. He had created a mirror image of some stark spider-like trees against a lit sky - a very intricate piece which revealed animalistic organic shapes and forms the longer one examined the piece. We talked about ways of getting our works out there without having to invest on solo shows (very expensive), and submitting to group shows, competitions and awards may be one way of doing this fairly inexpensively as all you're covering is the printing and mounting of one or two prints. I think Luke's work has very high commercial value in the decorative art market.

On the news today: several bombs were detonated in Ahmedabad, in the Indian state of Gujarat (Gandhi's birthplace). Only a day ago, bombs exploded in Bangalore. A bit worrying given Paul and my plans to travel India for a month, but I suspect that these incidents tend to occur more in areas which are more politically active or skewed, eg. extreme Right, or where the Hindu vs Muslim tension is more pronounced politically. We should be okay if we avoid these regions. And from my reading, India has always expressed tensions, whether religious or political, which often reach breaking point and erupt in expressions of violence and terrorism. It seems to be a land fraught with contention and opposition.

I've also learned that Jak has found this blog. How the eff did she find it? It's not a very "findable" blog in the first place!