6 Mar. 2020 - MONA

 Image: MONA (Google Earth)

The cloud is lifting slowly from Mt Wellington as we ride the camouflage ferry to MONA and ascend the ninety-nine steps. Once inside + back down to the base of the void, much has changed - yet much also is familiar.

The poo-view toilet is amusing + Bit.Fall is full of CORONAVIRUS.
Kryptos still delights in a moment of solitude + Siloam's tunnel of sound is an intriguing addition.
But I've yet to truly view a Turrell + the digital queues + extra ticket fees frustrate + rankle.

After a lunch-roll in the sun of the lawn I return to my favourite of the day - Ikeda's Supersymmetry - to immerse myself again in its rhythms, staccato crackles, pulsing screens, swarms of dots + data plots building to a crescendo of audio-visual beauty + euphoria. A triumph.

Dinner @ Ichimei - new yet familiar.

Notes: I greatly admire David Walsh and I do particularly like the idea of MONA, but I fear that somewhere over the past five years or so they have started to believe their own publicity just a little too much perhaps? In part it seems to be almost an unwelcome parody of itself ...