… to see “The Crack”, Shibboleth by Doris Salcedo, which was remarkably beautiful and exciting for being basically a crack in a cement floor. I loved the journey of travelling along its length, exploring the offshoot cracks and seeing it expand and contract. I loved that there were so many people there obviously enjoying it. I loved that for a piece about such serious topics as alienation and separation, it was so accessible to the public and that people were walking along it, straddling it, putting their feet in it and taking photographs of toys and each other interacting with it (I saw a little girl photographing her teddy bear, suspended by his arms over one of the larger parts and a young couple who had brought a Lego cowboy along to photograph at the edge of the abyss). Shame they’re filling it in on Monday, but I do like that you’ll always be able to see it – it’ll always be there, it can’t ever fully be taken away. Very, very cool. I took a ton of photos too, but as they’re all on film, it’s going to take a while for them to get to the shop and be processed.

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An exhibition of war and anti-war posters at the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth. Fabulous exhibition – some fascinating posters.

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in my composition book – I wanted to keep a page out of the Millais exhibition notes, on his stunning portrait of Louise Joplin, but it looked too plain against the paper, so I found some old dark-green tissue paper and stuck that over the page last night, then today added in the page and part of the cover to remind myself of where I’d found it. Looks much better than if plain.

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Finally got to the “How We Are” exhibition on its last day. Don’t know why I haven’t been terribly enthused about getting to this one, but it was very interesting when I got there, of course, and I was especially intrigued to see the photos by Lewis Carroll and Vanessa Bell, but I think it was the modern photography that most grabbed me.

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