The hours spent in the window watching Liverpool pass by allow you plenty of time to study your fellow humans. I made two observations in particular: firstly the city is still the capital of live music, it seemed that every other lad who walked past was carrying a guitar. And secondly it was interested to watch couples as they passed in cars; where the girl was driving, the lad was more likely to be looking at the shops and pointing me out; but where the lad was driving, the girls tended to be texting - all this was a totally unscientific study but amused me anyway…
Before my session on Saturday, I visited the Walker for the Wolfgang Tillmans' exhibit. It was interesting that the artist and curator had chosen to display the works intermixed with the existing artworks in the gallery which gave you a different insight into some of the "old masters" that I normally tend to speed past.
Sunday afternoon I took in the Biennial pieces in FACT, and had a hot chocolate and cake with the ever lovely Anna (twitter @thespyglass) before heading over to Renshaw Street.
The journey back to London was productive, I got chatting to the young guy sat next to me, who was looking for a rugby team to play for having just moved south, so I talked about our team www.kxsrfc.com and he played for us this weekend, he's a very talented and enthusiastic flanker, and should be an asset to the team as we enter the second half of the season.
2010 Biennial has been amazing, I've done 5 visits and still didn't get around everything. It’s a worrying time for the arts as the government wields its spending axe, but knowing the people involved in Biennial and knowing the people of Liverpool, they won't let a bit of petty penny pinching in Whitehall spoil the party. Roll on 2012!
