Bare-faced?

The football season is well and truly over and I'm glad.  Yep I said it! Because there’s nothing like being a Londoner and not supporting the London team who won the European Champions league. Add the injury of having to drive around instead of over fans on walkabouts with blue flags jeering at everyone as if they had replaced Drogba and scored the decisive penalty.

I decided to walk when I saw this bus approaching.

Sounds like sour grapes, yes! It’s a sour vineyard and definitely a non vintage year for the reds, which got me thinking of the main twitter trend in London on the night of that Chelsea victory... #BayerToWin. How un-patriotic and London-sceptic it seems we had become, or simply we hate some their squad (coughing C**e and T**ry?) Call it what you want but it got me thinking of disappointment and the ways we as a society are allowed to express it.

I made a grudging Facebook post, but how truthful are we at presenting ourselves visually?

In song, Yes, of course there’s Ceelo’s amusing ‘F**k You’ however Marvin Gaye’s single ‘when did you stop loving me, when did I stop loving you ‘ has to be one of the best outpouring of real life ever written and sung.  

But very rarely are images posted by individuals of their own bad hair days, a spell of adult acne, a portrait of disappointment at not getting the job or unrequited love never realised.

What favourite thing did Jill Greenberg take from Gwen Stefani?

In the ‘now culture’ are we expected to snap back from bust to boom in record time, to have that stiff upper lip when it wants to tremble and show how shiny happy people we are at all times?

That’s why I love Frieda Kaholo’s truthful statement in her piece titled A Few Small Nips (Passionately in Love) when broken hearted by her husband’s affair with her sister.

Frieda Kaholo lets her paintbrush do the talking.

But is it narcissistic to willingly reflect every emotion and face to the world including the less positive ones?  Or is there room for a little more humanity without the whitewash or the Photoshop?

Yue Minjun magnificent Massacre at Chios