Aberdeen Art Gallery

So several months ago I went to Aberdeen Art Gallery. It's pretty cool, I love the entry, the fountain the neon sign by Tracy Emin just behind it. I found it relaxing somehow. It didn't make my brain hurt from trying to read into it I was able to enjoy it.

Tracy Emin, For You

It's neon and eye catching. I'm simplifying because I appreciate it most in this simple form.

Is that wrong of me? To like it solely because I like the way it looks. Maybe I liked the way it made me feel? It made me smile.    

Sarah Taylor, Inner Light 

I loved this, clearly I'm attracted to things with pretty lights. This is my favorite thing in the whole building. I could stare at it for hours. I find it beautiful and inspiring, at times it even makes me want to cry. I don't know why maybe because it's called inner light and that makes me think of the sole. This undefinable thing in all of us that makes us who we are, the very thing that makes us different. If you believe in that sort of thing. 

Now I feel really bad because I can't remember who this is by and I know I should know. I have tried to find it several times. I think this is so creepy and disturbing but I love it. It's different from all the other portraits upstairs that hurt my eyes and bore me to tears with their plainness. This is both real and abstract. I feel a kind of sympathy for the creature portrayed. I can't really explain why. 

One off the reasons I don't "blog" as much as I should is because I always think I'm saying the wrong thing. I often think I should have some long winded, deep reason why I like something. But I don't think my brain works that way. It has trouble getting thoughts organised coherently enough to explain them to others. So I'm just going to do things my way.