Friday 17th June
I have been catching up on drawing the morning, and starting to develop some of the prints. This afternoon YanYan and I went to the opening of the Dandelion exhibition at the Paradise Walk in JeFangBe, that was set up by the British Council. There was very much pomp and ceremony, but the Dandelion (a very interesting sculpture/installation/architectural structure at the Shanghai expo 2010) looks such an interesting work. Also, of course it was great for me to meet up with some British people working at the council, some other foreign artists and creatives in Chongqing. We also went for dinner hosted by Virgin Atlantic at a very posh resort called Tienda. We were hosted at a french restaurant called BonBon, so I had some western food for the first time, and a toilet with a seat on it! Ah the simple things in life!
I also met a British artist Oliver Gosling who is based in Chongqing – I am going to go to his studio on Sunday.
