Lynn Schirmer

Willow Fox, former student of Su’s, supporter throughout the last few months, and employee of 4Culture just happened to be in France about the same time I was. We were both scheduled to fly out this Monday so she came to stay with me in my Paris apartment for the last afternoon and night. She had been in a small town outside of Lyon, staying with the originators of a new international video festival. She had applied and been accepted several months ago. Way to go Willow!

So she came and we had a few hours on Sunday to experience Paris. Everyone she’d met had told her to find the chocolate place on Ile St. Louis. We found it and yes, it was the most extraordinary hot chocolate I’ve ever had. Here she is outside the shop.

Notice the pantaloons. Willow is an extraordinary clothing designer, amongst her other talents. All the haute coutured Parisians were staring, in a good way.

I was bent on attending the Paris Art Fair, cold or no cold (which I must say had knocked me completely out most of Sunday.) It was mostly French galleries, some Italian, mostly regional, so not as prestigious as the other big fairs, or even provincial I guess you could say, but we managed to find a couple of pieces that amused us. Most of all, the architecture wowed us in the Grand Palais, as well as the walk to it through the gardens of Le Louvre and the circus with the Arch d’Triumph in view.

Willow found a piece she culd interact with.

I’m back on the architecture.

Willow and I closed the Fair down, caught a taxi back to my neighborhood, found a lovely little bistro and had a great meal. Next day we both had to face the terminals.