I couldn't bear that picture of the gun being on my blog for longer than about an hour, so I've put a new picture up.
A visitor to the gallery on Saturday offered to bring in a picture of a fluffy kitten to stick onto the collective protest banner that visitors to the exhibition can contribute to. (This image was not donated by her but found by me online).
In amidst all of this experience I am finding that my ability to judge the tone of people's comments is weak. Did she really mean that a fluffy kitten would be a suitable counterbalance to the images on show on Hirschhorn's banner or was she being entirely facetious. It may seem obvious to you but at the moment I really can't tell.
It's the same with 'Max Loader' and his/her posts about the tin can (see below). To use a word like 'transfixed' to describe an interest in my discussion of 2- and 3-Dimensions appears to me to be rather exaggerated.
A gap has opened up in my interactions with others between their intentions and my receptiveness to those intentions. A widening which includes a muddying and mixing of friendliness and hostility.
But I can work with that. It's at the core.
