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Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman in London (1969)

Paul McCartney, Linda Eastman at Mary Hopkin's release party (1969)

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Angular - Helsinki, Finland - 13 February 2025

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FOTD-oxalis-13th February

For Cee’s FOTD challenge for February 13th Weeed

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For my birthday I got, what I wished for the CD:

AND this:

Like my mom probably just thought, well if she want a CD read my this guy then she'll probably likes the book as well.

And she is not wrong!

Best mom ever. I love these presents

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Art! Adventure! and..Train...Delays

Our first big external trip was to Leeds and we had a very fulfilling and eventful day.

First, we had the familiar (to me) 1 hour Journey to Leeds after meeting up at the station. I for one was interested in the rest of Leeds as I’d become very familiar with the station after moving up to Liverpool but had never ventured into the city itself. We then met up with James there and set off, it was at this point I brought my camera out and began the photographing.

Our first stop wasn’t very far from the station though walking down the streets of Leeds was fun in its own right. Soon we arrived at the Henry Moore Institute, home of all things sculpture and after depositing our things behind the counter we got a comprehensive tour of their current exhibition Edward Alligtons ‘Things Unsaid’. The exhibition was interesting in that it had a lot of different artworks that weren’t easily connected. I liked it though, the involvement of metal and more technological sculptures amongst the classical and mythological themes had a nice juxtaposition to it. Everyone who worked there was super friendly as well and I felt like I could ask anything if only I could think of questions which became a running theme for the rest of the day. There were so many great places we went today but I especially loved the library and archive upstairs in the institute, it was so cosy and though not massive you could definitely spend days looking through all of their collection.

Walking across the bridge to Leeds Art Gallery

Our next stop was a short staircase and bridge away, it was the Leeds art Gallery which I think has been my favourite gallery I’ve visited so far simply because of the range of artworks they had. From contemporary to pre 20th century they had a lot to look at and I felt like I could spend a whole day there. We then had a lunch break in the café downstairs which had the most amazing tiles and I put my camera away to give it a little rest.

After the lunch break, we set off on towards East Street Arts, through this walk, we traversed through Leeds and saw the change in area from the high rise buildings and shops to the abandoned buildings and shut up shops which became more apparent as we walked towards where we were headed. We were seeing the change that happened because of gentrification and it wasn’t as subtle as I thought it was going to be. After me running after the group a few times after getting a bit behind because I kept taking photos, we found our way to the studios and on the way, James also pointed out his old studios. Going into East Arts it was immediately apparent that it was very from other places we’d visited before. East Streets is a company that have places all across the UK and they had their own office space and then they had studios and you could definitely see the change that happened when you could own your own building. A lot of smaller independently artist-run organizations don’t have this opportunity which we would see a few differences later on at Surf. It was also interesting seeing the difference in the studio's forum what we see later as the rooms were very organised and closed off from each other while still being around other artists. It was clear that the people working in the organisation and high aspirations for what the company can bring to the art world and to local artists. It’s great to know that these independent places are that start small can grow into something more and can become reliable to both themselves and the artists working there. Exploring the old nunnery was also very fun.

Our next stop The Tetley was interspersed with a few photoshoots on bridges, though we got a lot of very cute photos from it. By this point, we were all a little worn out and with languid steps, we wandered around the Tetley. This space was different in itself in that the building consisted of small rooms connected by small archways, not the big high ceilings you are used to from gallery spaces. We were also kinda mesmerised by a tightrope walker bringing paintings across a steep cliff who you were in constant fear of falling.

The next stop was another studio space – Serf. This space was open and artsy and I think most like what I now expect artist studios to be like. The roof wasn’t perfect and it was permanently cold. But the space was open, being artist-led it was a lot like how the art school studios were which was that there were people to talk to a little space to chat. It was nice in there with plants everywhere, everyone was super friendly and I kinda wanted to stay forever. It was very informational to see the difference between Serf and East Street Arts especially with them not owning the building they spoke about the difficulty with getting an escalator in to make it more accessible and how they made the space their own into what it is today.

Us in Serf

By this point all of us were pretty exhausted, James took us all to the oldest Pub in Leeds which was packed but I didn’t mind that much as it was still cosy. We sat outside and chatted for a while before James had to go and meet his friend. We then made our way to spoons and had dinner before leaving and finding out our train was cancelled which then led to us going to the stations' spoons for deserts and another drink while also introducing Gabriella to Horrible histories. It was a long day as our first trip out of Liverpool it was extraordinarily fun and I definitely will go back to Leeds.