Saturday, February 2, 2013

It really was an interesting image

Today at the auction house it was crowded. There were a lot of people that needed attention in the form of display cases being opened, or, since it was their first time there, have the whole auction process explained to them. It did certainly not come in handy that I had read an enthralling book the day before, and in the way that I get when finishing a book I was really into, I was stuck inside my head, rather than in the present. Does anyone else have that problem I wonder? I sometimes find that when I emerge from the book-world I have been happily inhabiting in my head, reality pales in comparison. It has the power to make me feel really quite gloomy, and detached from.. well, pretty much everything. So this is why I was frequently spacing out while Chinese visitors were meticulously inspecting porcelain next to me.

Overall it was fine though, I even managed to maintain a straight face as an elderly man escorted me to an erotic 18th century painting and, after a simple question, started narrating me on the merits of the paint used and the importance of color. And that really was quite awkward.