Sorry about the selfies.
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Dear Art Galleries,
Happy Valentines. I love you.
I know you’re not a big talker, and I tend to whisper a lot
when I visit, but I felt it was about time to really tell you how it is. It’s
time you heard how great you are.
Thank you for being there. With your huge pillars, marble
staircases, winding corridors, intricate ceilings and shining floors, you’re
quite a sight to behold - even when people got a bit weird about your
architecture and made some of you brutalist back in the ‘60s, but we’ll move on
from that- and it’s always comforting to see you in our cities, beaming down at
us.
Thank you for being the place we inevitably go when we’re
travelling, even if most people in our group hate art, so that we can say we
didn’t just visit beaches. Thank you for being an alternative to the cinema on
a rainy day. Thank you for being there for school trips, even when most of us
would have preferred the zoo so we could get a pencil with a furry elephant on
the end. Thank you for being there for dates, when we want to pretend we’re
deep, and think of something other than a dinner or bowling. Thank you on
behalf of grandparents everywhere who dragged us there when we were too small
to cope with all that walking and moaned the entire visit.
All that time we knew you’d just be sitting there, waiting
for us to pop by. Thanks for all that.
I guess it’s also time that we all apologised as well. I’m
sorry about the selfies. You thought the cameras were bad, and then we got
phones and then we got selfie-sticks. But thank you for always providing a good
backdrop when we need to add some intellect to our instagram feeds. And we also
know you hate the flash, but probably at least once a day, someone will forget
to turn theirs off and you get blinded just a bit. Sorry, that must suck.
And sorry about all the abuse. I know you manage to keep
your cool when you hear ‘but what is the point?’
‘why did I pay to come see this?’ ‘I
could have done that!’ and ‘…what so is this fire extinguisher art, then?’
about a million times a day. But I know it hurts you a little as well. Thank
you for keeping quiet whilst everyone voices their opinions about you, it’s
what you do best.
I hope you remember that whilst others might come to just
use the free toilets, (and use a cool snapchat geofilter), there are some of us
who are really glad you’re here.
Lots of love from your not-so-secret admirer.
P.S: If I could just make one request, it would be fab if
you could have a few more squishy sofas dotted around when our feet get tired.
Thanks!
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