Flying Visits pt1-Marrakesh

As I said before I was going to take full advantage of this year and make sure I got to do what I do best, go jet setting!! See new places, meet new people and learn lots of wonderful new things! My 1st stop in this cramped fun filled week was Morocco Marrakesh, the city which sparked my new found obsession with cobalt blue. With a 4am wake-up call to start my adventure we got on the first flight to Marrakesh. 
During my 4 days there we managed to go on a couple of excursions the 1st was in the Ourika Valley in the Atlas Mountains a wonderful weaving world of small shisha dens and Morrocan tea tents all in crammed up through a valley of waterfalls and and stoney passage ways. In total there where 7 waterfalls of which i got to see 3 as the instructor informed us it would take all day to climb up to the top as the passages quickly turned into narrow and steep rock faces. 
The 3rd day we went on our second excursion to Essaouira fisherman village on the coast of Morocco as we unfortunately missed our bus for Ouarzazate (an area which is largely used for its  scenery in films). On our 4 hour journey from Marrakesh to Essaouira we stopped in good old tourist fashion at every smelly, herby and spicy pit stop. The most bizarre of sighting was of the goats quite casually munching in and all about the trees in the middle of no where. 
After a jam packed 4 days of markets, teas, tangines and excursions we had to leave for London...

Hand Museum

The Hand Museum all started as a fun sculpture collaboration project where we made sculptures of cultural hand gestures both universal and international. Almost Universal, Bollywood Dance, British Bam and American Gangster where made out of mod rock casts of our hands filled with plaster, in these topical and infamous shapes. 

I definitely feel that hand gestures are a fun and exciting way to which our world is developing and expressing itself. Particularly with today's popular culture of memes its kind of hard to miss and you almost feel compelled to sign before you smile! 

Part of the final display for the exhibition was a collection of 4 hands on podiums which spell F, U, C, K which are a tribute to traditional sign language, keeping the whole feel of the exhibition educational and playful yet silly and crude.