Heron in Water of Leith

Spotted this on my way back from the Art Gallery where I had seen the Sculpture exhibition.

Deeply moved by one piece, extremely moved by it. It's a piece by Eric Gill called "Talitha Cumi" a letter carving retelling the New Testament story where Jesus calls the girl that had died to wake up and she does. This story has always moved me and will always move me. When I was six my sister (who was five years older than me) died. She had been rather ill for about a year and it was good for her to go at that time, even I as a six year old could understand that, but I could never really hear that story again without thinking "and why not my sister?" And I suppose after all this time I still do and get moved by different things every so often. She died on the 25th of December which makes Christmas a difficult day sometimes but remembrance doesn't seem to be linked to dates, it comes and goes and the pain is sometimes hard to bear and sometimes easier. I know that this pain will be living with me forever and no matter how many years have passed there will always be these moments of remembrance, of feeling sad and bereft.

The other piece that I really liked at the gallery was the "way things go" by Fischli and Wyss. This is a film that follows the seemingly perpetuum mobile of tyres, candles, foam trays that keep in constant motion and create the weirdest chain reaction. I was laughing a lot and amazed at some of the combinations.

It was a great way to spend a Friday morning. I love going to see art. I want to go back to the Cadell exhibition, I think it's worth the money.