We spent Friday night in Bunbury last night. Our good friend Fiona Hillary was exhibiting in the ECU graduation show at the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries. The quality of the work on show was amazing, and Fi’s work in particular was just spellbinding.

Then we were out to an Indian restaurant and a lot of talk about art and life. Gee I love hanging out with artists.

We stayed the night at the Lord Forest hotel, one of those 1980′s style atrium hotels with the pool in the bar in the lobby and plants growing all around. It feels very 1986 in there.

But there was one thing that just caught my eye. In place of the usual thing where the hotel asks you to hang up the towels because they “care about the environment” (something I never believed), there was this wonderful notice:

NOTICE.
This Hotel has been fitted with the latest tapware. Please Note: A quarter of a turn is all that is required to open or close the tapware installed in your room. It is not necessary to use force as these taps will open and close with your fingertips.

Wonderful. How it raises the trivial to significance. I took a lot of notice of the tapware, let me tell you.

There is art everywhere in the world.