I’ve been to Lille for the day, to see La Piscine, a museum of art and industry in an art deco swimming pool. It’s thrillingly good, using its setting as a fresh way to think about the objects in it.
I saw much else besides; this, after two weeks in my home city pottering around exhibitions I had meant to see and places I had never visited.
If that all sounds a bit “what I did in my holidays”, here’s why this matters…
Design and illustration are much, much more than ‘doing’. To practise well takes practice – of skills and of the art of looking at things. Wandering and wondering are both pleasures and essential to bring insight, knowledge and fresh thinking to creative work.
As I approached La Piscine, trying to find an angle for a photograph I noticed that if you crop ‘musée’ you get ‘see’. It’s nice when that happens.
