Silent Sunday ...and art

Bigger Trees Near Warter, DAVID HOCKNEY

York City Gallery

Slow Down

In this very frenetic and hectic world, everybody needs to slow down a bit every now and then and this is what an arty group called the Cracking Art Group thought of to visualize this idea.

Twelve enormous pink snails have moved in to Milan city centre for a new outdoor art installation designed to encourage the fast-living residents of the Lombardy capital to slow down. Three metres long and two metres high, the huge molluscs are currently circling Piazza Scala in front of Milan's famous opera house, La Scala, and the nearby square in front of the Chiesa di San Fedele.

(Photos taken by my friend Giusy in Milan)

After their time spent “at the opera”, the snails will start moving (slowly of course!) towards the square in front of Milan's Palazzo Reale before making their way in single file to the central train station in January.