The SSEES Library has extraordinary Piranesi-like games with perspective, caused by reflective glass below, giving an illusion of yet more floors deployed below the ground.
My talk (A Flame with Protruding Fibres: Eisenstein on Synaesthesia) and screening (my music/film Oserake and The River That Walks) were very well received, and the questions afterwards were really interesting and most perceptive.
Afterwards we all had wine, then went on to an excellent Italian restaurant, where we continued to swap stories from our past travels in Russia, something I don’t often get the chance to do!
This was a very good end to a day which had started unexpectedly at 4.15 that morning: a surge of water had exploded from our washing machine. It was like a rehearsal for the hosepipe scene from Eisenstein’s film The Strike, I thought, as I struggled to control over the next two hours the fierce jet of water spurting out of our kitchen window into the night…