BERLIN Day 2 - 3rd May 2018

Day 2

This has been quite a chill day in comparison to yesterday. Since it is Katies birthday (a girl from my course), as a group, we decided to just go with the flow and see where the day took us.

The Dudes Factory - Mcbess

After a long walk hunting for this shop, we finally found The Dudes Factory. In this gallery/shop, there were so many beautiful prints, clothing and accessories available to buy, and I do really wish I had more money to do so, but with my student based budget, I limited myself to a t-shirt and a print, which I am still very pleased with, but I wish that I could have bought the whole store.

I have decided to show what I had bought from the Dudes Factory in a future blog post, as I want to show my collection of work that I have bought from artists in the past, as I am so happy to be able to hold there work in my hands as opposed to just looking at it on screen and giving it a like on social media. I also feel my collection will help show more about myself, as you will be able to see my taste in artists, styles, colour palettes, imagery etc, and its more personal to see what I've actually been willing to spend my money on, as opposed to liking it on Instagram, as I had mentioned before.

Chilling in the Park

As it was such a nice day and the group felt quite tired after our morning hunt, we retreated to the local park and relaxed there for the afternoon. We mostly enjoyed watching all of the dogs run around freely, which I have to mention, they are better behaved/trained than they are back in the UK, as I don't think I have ever seen so many dogs off their leashes as I have in Berlin.

Birthday Celebrations

On the night time, we celebrated Katie's birthday with a few drinking games in our room, but then decided to pop on the train, heading to the center of Berlin so that we could have a little bit of food before carrying on the antics of the night. This is where we had discovered an artist named Barica Emanuel, who was creating an art piece on the floor outside of the station. As he was creating a portrait, which I myself love doing, straight away it had caught my eye and I was amazed. Other than the fact that the piece was beautiful (even though it had not been completed yet) I was amazed at how he would create work of the scale and have it still be readable from a standers perspective. I would love to have stayed and watched him work, as that in its self was satisfying to watch process and progress, however, it was Katie's birthday so I did have to leave eventually.
This to me had shown that there was more art to find, see and experience within Berlin, without having to go to an exhibition and see the work displayed on walls.
From here, we had ate some noodles then went back to our 'home' stop on the train, and went to a bar close by the hostel, met up with the other students and tutors from our college, and we celebrated Katie's birthday.