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I went to the Rodin exhibit at the art gallery tonight. It was donation night, so the price wasn't too steep and the sculptures were pretty awe inspiring.

But Rodin was just the first floor. On the second floor there was this exhibit called "Adaptations". The patrons of the gallery were encouraged to interact with the various pieces and adapt them. This included a room filled with chairs. I took one and placed in a corner to symbolize what a naughty girl I am and that I need a time out, or that I'm a loner, or isolated, or something. It was all very artistic.

The second half of the second floor was this display of a guy who plays with images from the media. He would take two dimensional pictures and create 3D sculptures. One was a parade of various war propaganda from Japan in the war and another was a girl from a Japanese adult entertainment ad. One of his coolest pieces was this huge rug. It was the size of one of the giant rooms in the gallery and it was a replica of the TIME magazine cover with the exploding Columbia on it. If you removed your shoes you could walk on it.

As Anna said "Hey Mom, I'm on the cover of Time Magazine."

It was pretty trippy. Especially when you went the floor up and you could watch all the people walk around on it. It really played with perspective and would have been my favourite part of the gallery if not for what I found next.

Which was my new favourite artist. His name at birth was Theodore Fu Wan, but at some point in the 70's he legally changed his middle name to Saskache.


Think about that for a second.


What gets even better is he discovered that on the trans Canada in a certain prairie province there is a small town called Theodore. So he did a whole bunch of research and then went to the town and took his picture there, and sold those photos as postcards.

I went to the gift shop to see if I could find any of them, but they mostly just had Rodin stuff, and really pretty purses which I became distracted by.

He had lots of interesting art. One was a list of ten girls names, which he called "The first ten girls who came to mind", and another which was a self portrait of him being very skinny, next to one of him being all buff with the caption "I did it.....IN JUST TEN MINUTES". I laughed.

So he's awesome. And Canadian.

Go Canada!