MONANISM - MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART

Dear peoples,
Well today I embark on a blogging journey of a new kind.
I am chartering new territories in my living status also and, I think there will be many stories I can share, mostly in humor, perhaps some as argument, and knowing me I will even get my back up and try to defend...though the most important thing here is, each and everyone of us is entitled to their opinion. We are all entitled to discuss, love, hate, ponder, chastise, criticize, adore, envy, I think this list is never ending. So this brings me to the new mission. And here it is.
My new mission and I choose to accept it, is to blog about the interesting encounters I have at my new place of work. The VERY new MONA/MUSEUM OF OLD AND NEW ART . The building is so new it actually still isn't finished but it's finished enough to impress every single person I've spoken to so far...which is ALOT.
So fuck, I guess I will really have to give a quick basic run down of this place, QUICK. You can google the fuck out of it. So do so.
Heres a start Moorilla Overview.
Basically my uncle, David Walsh and his partners brought a beautiful old vineyard Moorilla Estate, which as well as being an established cold grape vineyard, it already was pretty architecturally delightful. The main example being the iconic round house Roy Grounds built, which was the original owners house, ( Roy Grounds also designed the Snows dry cleaning building in Glenorchy - FUNNY).
David had been collecting antiquities for some time and started educating himself about art. He turned the previous owners Claudio Alcorso house (yes the Roy Grounds design), into a small Museum. He brought more art and soon its obvious he has taste and flair in art and, although he claims to be unable to actually make art (a side note here would be to say that David is a beautiful writer, his poetry is exquisite.) Its pretty fair to say the scholar has become a pretty prominent collector of some fucking beautiful work. NOW this has developed further because David needed somewhere as spectacular as this ever growing collection to keep the works and he decides to share it with the public.
Nonda Katsalidis steps in as architect for the project and a pretty fucking wonderful team believe in Davids vision and endeavor for fill it.
So welcome to MONA. This is where I come in. Finally after 4 years this amazing, no I actually have no words to build up to this place. If you've been to a guggenheim then maybe you will get what Im trying to convey and if you've been there then you will just know. Okay so check this article out with some photos, google for more if you want I just realized Im googling everything for you lazy pricks. No more!!
heres one
Working in the bookshop I knew would prove interesting.
I asked David if i could keep a blog about my interesting encounters and he told me he would be pleased if that's what I'd wanted to do. He wants discussions, interaction, communication.
This is my way of doing so.

I find it funny how people just want to view EVERYTHING.
They wander up STAFF ONLY hallways, they look at stickers we have sticking to the side that are being used to price items and a funny little couple walked straight into the cloakroom. When greeted by staff who informed them 'This isnt the toliet!', they replied 'We are just looking at the art!'. Did they think that the cloak room was art?? OH so cute.

I had a very lovely lady very keen to inform me of her worldly museum experience. 'This place is more magnificent that the British Museum'. Now there's a statement but I find myself agreeing. The conforming layout of the British Museum for me was somewhat overwhelming. Here is all the Egyptian Antiquities, Here is the Greek stuff...go here go there...bla bla wheres the pub. Her husband joined us after a while and declared to me how impressed with the building he was (again no art mentioned) and I told him I find the experience as equal as entering a magnificent church, the peace, awe of beauty made in such a space, the space alone gives me goose bumps. The husband laughed at me and said...I dont think D W would like that, referring to it as a church. I said to him...'Is my temple a better word' and he said...'ah but they are two very different things'. Now I've been thinking about that and I have to disagree. This man did not know I am an atheist, nor did he know my beloved pops ashes we in the mortuary being viewed by thousands and importantly he did not buy Monanisms so he cant walk on the Walsh side. This is wonderful in that I find myself going home which these thoughts I can only hope he did too. I'm yet to walk through the gallery with the magic O DEVICE. I prefer the anonymity of the works...the galleries. One day i will...but not for a while, being oblivious to whats around the corner is half the fun!! x