Edinburgh Part II

Yesterday we went to see the David Mach Precious Light exhibition at the City Art Centre.

Edinburgh's City Art Centre

Earlier in the year, Gallery Pangolin held an exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral, which was amazing. One of the first things you saw on entering the cathedral was a giant sculpture of a man on a crucifix with pins coming out of him. I didn't realise at the time, but that was a David Mach.

He is absolutely outstanding. He has done a modern-day retelling of the bible in collage. It's hard to explain, but if you get the chance - go. It's truly spectacular and thought-provoking. If you Google Image 'David Mach', you get a sense of the sort of things he does.

Another thing he's become renowned for is making sculptured heads out of matchsticks, then setting fire to them.

 

We followed up the exhibition with a lovely meal at In Delhi, which is a gorgeous little place that does the best mango lassi in the world.

Mango lassi at In Delhi

Inside In Delhi (click to enlarge)

We've also been doing some cooking ourselves. During our Tarot marathon, we made pasta with nibbles from Westmorland Farm Shop which is on the M6 as you come through Cumbria. It's a great place and I stopped off on my way up.

Nibbles

Busy in the kitchen.

Continuing the fun and frolics in Edinburgh. Further updates soon.

This post also goes out to our good friends Jo & Pierre, who last week welcomed their daughter, Zuba, into the world. Her name is Kinyarwanda for 'sun'. We're sure she's going to be a little ray of light.