Xochimilco – today it is the only part of Mexico City still to have the canals and semi-floating flower and vegetable gardens. Popular place to spend the weekend with your family on one of the rented punts, which have a roof and a table down the middle.

On the first pictures there are children toys found from the canals and nailed to the trees. There was one man who collected them this way, which reminds me Polish contemporary art exhibition I saw in Tallinn Art Hall twenty years ago, although the installation was kind of spooky I was deeply impressed.

As July is endless birthday-season in our family, then in between of arranging parties I will post about Mexico City.

“The big problem when you’re an artist is that the times of creation don’t come often. Most of the time I stay here in my studio and groan, and after that I go to my room, look at the TV.
‘One of the beauties of my life is that I never work. I’m lazy and I have no other way to work. I teach this to my students: you must wait and hope – there’s nothing else you can do. And when you have an idea, you can do it in ten minutes.”

Christian Boltanski

Can it get any better, from a man working with very dramatic issues? He is one of my long term favorites.

Image from: ser urbano

Tonight was an opening of the exhibition TDK in EKKM (an alternative Museum of Contemporary Arts, Estonia). Among mostly sound specific installations, full size bar with a wonderful ambience, long list of drinks and color lights and music was created by Hillar, bar tender we all remember from NOKU club. Regardless the fact that it is already truly cold and damp inside of this amazing building the exhibition was very good. Excellent job Neeme, Dénes and Eemil and all the other artists!

Today I attended the opening of Alice Kask exhibition in the Bank of Estonia. Very secure place, you have to take your ID card along in order to get in. Mr George W Busch had his press conference in there while visiting Estonia .

Well, Alice presented her older works this time. She is just very good!

Later on I went to the Central Library and there, on the stairs her painting looked back to me as well.

Yesterday I walked by Kultuuritehas Polymer, there is festival going on. I tried to visit design market, but I was a bit too early. Well, I saw something, and there is always something else going on. Like this sauna, made out of old windows by Artconteiner.