Went to a few exhibitions on Saturday. First off I went to the Glasgow Print studio to check out part of the 2 venue exhibition on Steven Campbell's work. The Rutherglen artist who was known as one of 'the New Glasgow Boys' died of a ruptured appendix in August there and this exhibition showcases the best of his work. Colourful, weird, crazy and brilliant. A Scottish talent that will be a big loss to the Art world.Afterwards I headed up to the CCA and the 'Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture' an interactive exhibition about the digital media involving video, computer and photographs. A small, interesting exhibition with slightly complicated exhibits which involved spending some time over. Time, which, I did not have a lot of.
Ka and myself went to Stepps yesterday to meet the newborn Christopher Miller. He was just as a baby should be. Quiet. We were there for about two hours and he slept the whole time and only woke as we were leaving. I suspect he just didn't want to socialise with us. Sarah, Brian and Yvie are all well and treated us to a Blue Ribband and tea.
Started looking into the family tree last Thursday with my Gran Reid. Came into work this morning and it turns out JP has started on his over the weekend too. My Gran let me borrow a load of old family photographs to scan of her family, from her own childhood growing up with my Great Aunt Mina and her brothers. Turns out my Great Great Grandfather is called McGuire and came over from Ireland at the turn of the century, around 1900 time. Will have to find dates though. So I don't actually have Pollock blood, it's actually McGuire blood. It's amazing how you get hooked on it all.
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Family trees are interesting, fun and consuming:-) I have asked my grandparents many times about their parents and grandparents since today. And everytime I ask them I learn some new information.
My ancestors lived interesting lives. For example one of my great-grandmothers cooked for an emperor, one of my great-grandfathers was a laird, and some of my ancestors were, sad to say, taken to the concentration camp. Including my great-grandfather who was lucky to escaped from there and his journey home was an adventure. And there are many other interesting things. As I said before - family trees are interesting and consuming. And I think everybody should know where he or she has come from. It makes them who they are.
This is an interesting theme, I should write something about it on my blog, too:-)
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