On Monday this week we drove up to Kassel to visit the documenta 12, the international modern art show that takes place every five years. As Sqeze has already written it was a big disappointment.

What was interesting, was that there was more fabric art this year – or was it just that I was more aware of it? I think not, as I have always been interested in all things to do with needlecraft. Here are some of the works of the Mali artist Abdoulaye Konaté, which interested me because of his use of texture. This is titled Gris-Gris pour Israel et la Palestine.

This shows the texture more clearly.

Symphonie de Bleu was made up of tails of fabric in all tones of blue. The lighting in the photo is not so good – flash wasn’t allowed and anyway probably would have made no difference at this distance!

I’m not sure whether these next 2 pieces were by Konaté or not – it wasn’t clear in the documenta-Halle. I also don’t know their titles either. In fact I found the labelling in the entire exhibition left a lot to be desired. I suppose they were trying to force the sales of the catalogue, which we did not waste our money on.