Out of our Comfort Zone

As you may remember we visited Guy in Taiwan earlier in the year.  So we were interested in a lecture which was being held at the Museum of Writing at Figeac looking at contemporary Taiwanese calligraphy.

Our main concern was whether we would be able to follow an illustrated lecture in French, although we have noted that academics tend to speak more slowly than ordinary people in conversation!

So we steeled ourselves and went along last night.  There were all of about a dozen people in the audience for such an obscure subject but we were very pleased to be able to follow the talk. The main theme was how a group of contemporary calligraphers are producing work which is basically illegible and becomes abstract art.

Taiwanese Calligrapher and Artist
Hsu Yung-Chin 徐永進 

 So, an hour and a half of brain exercise on a number of levels!!!