After a chill christmas and a start to 2016 spent dying in my bed due to an intense horrible cold I'm finally back in Bristol and trying to gather together the energy to face uni and work all over again for another term.
I also finally found the pictures on my computer of the Ann Veronica Janssens exhibit me and Niamh visited in London. The exhibit is at The Welcome Collection, called simply yellowbluepink it's described as both 'disorienting and uplifting' and I'm glad I'm not having to review it for real because I feel for whatever poor soul has to because it's utterly indescribable.
After waiting in the queue for half an hour and watching small groups trail into a glowing pink room my expectations were kinda 'ehh'. I'd seen photos from instagrams and thought it looked kinda interesting, maybe a bit of fun running round a smokey room for a bit.
That all changed once you stepped through the first set of doors, pass placed on your chest, watching the baby pink smoke filter through the gaps in the door and took your first steps into that world.
It hits you straight away, a thick smog that is impossible to see through, like when an airplane flies into a cloud and its a special kind of smoke and blank.
The attendants had warned us it was difficult to see and it was normal to feel disoriented and we obviously didn't pay that much attention but honestly it was so hard to see anyone more than a few feet away from you that I felt lost and confused once my friend faded into the fog.
Also my camera was playing up a bit and makes the photos look darker/murkier than it was.
Portraits in the pink
Selfies in yellow (although my camera read it as red/peach)
Blues are still Blue
Video from the Welcome collection website which kind of gives more of an idea of what it was like
I also felt like this song by Lapsley fits the exhibition with its soft overbearing and disorientating feel
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