You know how it is. You’re in a foreign city, miles from home, and you bump into an old friend. You do a double take. And you’re not really sure if you’re pleased at all to find home dogging you to the far corners of the earth.
My brief moment of cultural patriotism | Art & architecture | guardian.co.uk
The first paragraph of Jonathan Jones’ piece over @ the Guardian today - he’s talking about walking into the Met and Houston’s MFA and seeing BritArt (much of which he deems the second class of what it has to offer).
It is funny to find home abroad - it is both comforting but also eerie - did I really travel all this way to see things I could see at home?