so here i am in fish-land:
after much consideration i have decided to give these (albeit newly decorated) blog-walls a much needed splash of art, culture and giant genitalia…

last night i went to see the ron mueck exhibition at the national gallery of scotland and i have to say it left me speechless (well, almost!)

i have always been strangely drawn to hyper-realist sculpture such as those by duane hanson but what really set's mueck apart is his use of scale. non of his pieces are life size - some huge, some tiny, some just disconcertingly not quite life size. they are, however breathtakingly realistic from the hugest eyelashes to the tiniest toenail. being in a room with these sculptures is a head-fuck of the highest order. it makes you feel like you can't remember whether you ate the cake or drank the bottle.

the craftsmanship involved in his work is mind-boggling, a process that takes months and months of work - each hair, for example, is inserted manually into the silicone skin….

when standing next to the giant pieces you can't help worrying that the are going to lash out and grab you, the tiny ones might bite or snarl - all seem like they could move at any moment. the sculptures weren't the only ones in the room with goose-bumps.

this was definitely one of, if not the best exhibitions i've ever seen. if you are in edinburgh or get a chance to see any of mueck's pieces 'in the flesh' then please do - they are incredible, beautiful, nightmarish and like nothing you will ever see again.

well, there we go… that's me done!