Another Exhibition Opening
Last night we were invited to another exhibition opening in the City centre. This proved to be interesting on a number of counts.

1. It was held in the old custom house in the market area of down town Florianopolis in exactly the same building where I exhibited some work nearly 30 years ago. This time it looked more run down than I remember it, but I'm wondering if I'm remembering through rose coloured specs. I'll have to dig out the old photos when I get back to England and see.

2. This exhibition was by a group of local artists who were clearly trying to promote collaboration between artists and art in Florianopolis.

3. The event was 'interrupted' by a very loud, very poor, very hungry and very angry young woman, who walked in off the street, gobbled down a whole load of food and drink, pulled the cloths of the table and swore at everyone in sight. Needless to say the whole place came to a standstill, but people quickly recovered. However, it did serve to highlight the fact that there was a whole group of people drinking wine, eating small eats and looking at pictures in an area where outside there were people with clearly not enough to eat. A bit sobering really.