For the first time on this trip, even the card room is full. Normally, it's either empty of there's a table in use for, hmm, well the longest game I've seen there was four people playing Mah Jong, which they did for over six hours straight. Today, there were people playing actual cards (mainly Gin Rummy by the look of it), although there was also a couple who were playing Scrabble employing a special set of rules that says you can only use three- and four-letter words (either that or they had rather unsophisticated vocabularies).
Anyway, the ship has lots of "original artwork" aboard in the public spaces, and it's this that I thought I'd blog about today, now I've stopped digressing. Here are some examples of what's on show, some of which is actually quite aesthetically pleasing:
Those are photos of them in situ, so there are reflections and other distortions — you get the general, er, picture though.
Of course, art wouldn't be art without pretension, so each work is accompanied by a description. One of the above has this as its accompanying text — see if you can guess which:
Troy Abbot's [redacted] redefines spirituality through an exploratory dialogue that studies the collective consciousness of society. The artist's metaphorical creations address technology as a form of spirituality, resulting in beautiful installations in which contemporary culture delicately merges with the past.
Answer tomorrow...