Our overseas trip was pretty much indescribable...but in the next few blog posts I'll try my best to share some of the interesting and different things we experienced along the way.
While in London we visited the Tate Modern Museum...and what we found in there was awesome, intriguing and a little freaky, all at the same time. It was an art exhibition by a famous British artist named Damien Hirst. I'll be honest, I had never heard of him before, but while watching "Gossip Girl" the other day Blair mentioned him...and so I have decided that he must be something special if the fictional Upper East Side characters know of him. He is reportedly Britain's richest living artist. The focus of many of his art pieces is "death", and these pieces along with some of his verbal statements have caused a fair amount of controversy among the public over the years.
The Damien Hirst art piece that we viewed in the Tate Modern is named "For the Love of God" and it is a platinum cast of a real human skull, with the original human teeth, covered with 8 601 flawless diamonds and it is worth 50 million Pounds.
This art piece completely tore me in two directions as one one hand it was really creepy to consider that hundreds of years ago this was actually a real human and now some bling bling has been added to his skull and it is sitting in a lit up glass box in front of me. The other part of me was completely in love with this shiny and perfect masterpiece that stood sparkling under the lights, shining from every angel.
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